Does anyone know why search is not working?

sababon

It does not matter what is my search term i always get this msg: No results for...

gwuix2

i got this problem too

sababon

Anyone?

sirlancelot

Are you talking about on your own forum or this website (vanillaforums.org)?

sababon

i'm taking about my forum

Todd

A few things might be the problem:

• If you don't have many posts then search results won't show up.
• If you are searching for something that is <= 3 characters it won't show up.</li>
  
• Try putting a + in front of your search term.

stavthewonderchicken

Same issue here on 2.0 -- searches actually do nothing on my localhost testbed. The URL ends up at /vanillainstalldir/index.php?Search=searchterm (or =%2searchterm when prefixing with a '+'), but all Discussions are shown.

gwuix2

it did work for me with "+searchterm"
"If you don't have many posts then search results won't show up." i got exactly 3, then maybe thats the problem for me
thx

sababon

It works with the +. I have 2 posts maybe it is the problem. Thank you Todd for your help.

Todd

@stavthewonderchicken In your case there is a bug that has been fixed for 2.0.1 due out end of week.

stavthewonderchicken

@Todd sounds good, thanks.

dave_stewart

I've just had this as well, on a new install with 3 test posts.

I get results if I type + first, but that's not going to be intuitive for my users.

Why doesn't it just find the posts as one would expect?

Todd

@dave_stewart. Search uses mysql fulltext searches by default. They don't usually show results unless you have a lot of data.

It's just one of the problems with MySQL.

foho

I have the same bug too.

Cause my site language is Chinese. [URL: www.maiplus.com]

If you type Chinese and click search button,the result is none.

I think this is a bug:“Search” function can not support Multi-Language!

stevejin

I have the same bug too.
my forum is http://support.wpued.com