searching by part of word

Posted by sinisa.ilic on July 7, 2009 at 6:38pm

Hi,

I have downloaded Drupal version 6.12, installed and put some articles there. I tried to perform searching and it works but only if whole word(s) is (are) entered. Is there possibility (like plug in) to get results if only part of word is entered?

I have noticed that searching by part of word works at this site (drupal.org). I have searched by part of words and drupal.org has found my previous issues in this forum. Is this version of drupal newer than the one I have downloaded?

thanks
Sinclair

Comments

porter-stemmer

Posted by markabur on July 7, 2009 at 11:31pm

well, there's the porter-stemmer module that makes search work for variations or the root form of a word.

i haven't seen anything that truly indexes/searches parts of words though, e.g. that would make http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/ched return pages containing the word "schedule".