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Negative Search Terms

Submitted by Julian on Fri, 2006-08-11 17:39 in

is it possible to use negative search modifiers ?

ie i have blue and red widgets - a search for blue widgets will still return red widgets can i modify the code so if i search for

"blue widgets - red "

no red results will be returns

also is it possible to be able to use > or

Submitted by support on Sat, 2006-08-12 09:02

Hi Julian,

I'll have a look into this - it would require the use of MySQL's "BOOLEAN MODE" full text indexing which requires MySQL version 4.0.1 or later...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/fulltext-boolean.html