Search plugin (I18N)

[sbatko]

I'm writing custom plugin for indexing/searching of News Manager posts based on i18n_search_dummy.
Everything works fine now but i noticed that its impossible to find words containing dots: "editgrid.com" for example (used in title).

Not only in my plugin but also in special pages.

The search plugin adds words to the index, and these words are defined as strings of "word characters", which in english probably is letters, digits, - and _, thus your example contains two words "editgrid" and "com".

You can patch the indexing by changing the regular expressions in addWords in indexer.class.php, but I'm not sure, if any other changes would need to be made. In any case you must make sure that you differentiate a dot within a word with the punctuation dot.

Instead of modifying good indexing code i decided to add some logic to process search string (parameter ?words=). Dirty hack is to manipulate $words (searchresults.php line 38) with some form of replacing or so, eg
replace dot with space works fine for domain addresses.

PHP Code:

$words = array_key_exists('words',$params) ? $params['words'] : (isset($_REQUEST['words']) ? implode(' ',explode('.',trim($_REQUEST['words']))) : null); 


But i dont want to hack plugin code, is it posible to do this "right" way ?
May be filter or user function or so ? This may be used for language-specific or other manipulation of words.

Greets
Sebastian