search module - find substrings

Posted by heinzd on February 5, 2009 at 7:55pm

Hello

I'm playing around now for a while with drupal 6. The search function works, but I want it also to find substrings.
eg. if there's a word "spotlight" in an article, a search for "spot" or "light" should return that article.
I've looked for some custom code, but I couldn't find anything usable.
As substring search works default in Joomla I'd be very pleased to have it in Drupal too.

Who can tell me how to get it working?

thanks a lot
bye
Heinz Dumfart

Comments

_

Posted by WorldFallz on February 5, 2009 at 8:15pm

For english there's the http://drupal.org/project/porterstemmer module, and iirc, there's some for other languages. Perhaps a look at the code might be useful.

_{===
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz}

__{Don't be a Help Vampire - read and abide the forum guidelines.

If you find my assistance useful, please pay it forward to your fellow drupalers.}

thanks, I'll have a look at

Posted by heinzd on February 5, 2009 at 10:02pm

thanks, I'll have a look at it, but actually I'd need something for german language

_

Posted by WorldFallz on February 5, 2009 at 11:25pm

die deutsche Version ist hier: http://drupal.org/project/de_stemmer ;-)

__{Don't be a Help Vampire - read and abide the forum guidelines.

If you find my assistance useful, please pay it forward to your fellow drupalers.}