[ic] Swish search with wildcard

Music music at labyrinth.net.au
Wed Dec 9 03:07:45 UTC 2009


> The same thing occurs when using an IC search form. The item is only found 
> if the customer is smart enough to enter a * after the search term in the 
> form which is highly unlikely for most visitors.
>
> I have tried several different fuzzy index methods in swish and also 
> setting mv_substring_match to true however cannot find products like these 
> using IC and Swish-e.
>
> <form action="[area search]" method=post>
> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_substring_match VALUE=1>
> <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_searchtype VALUE=swish>

Just trying to get more info, is this what mv_substring_match does in a 
normal IC search but is this not expected to work when the search type is 
swish?

Does mv_substring_match change submitted search form data so that it looks 
like:
*searchterm*




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