And thank you guys so much for looking at this.

since exact can't be used with multiple SINGLE words.

why not?

Am 29.08.2017 um 10:31 schrieb Brian Teeman:

since exact can't be used with multiple SINGLE words.

why not?

'exact' matches the search string as a whole. You currently can't search
for 'bug' and 'direct' without matching 'debug' and 'redirect'.

Regards,
Niels

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Thanks for the explanation

For reference smart search aka com_finder searches for whole words

@brianteeman but sadly the layout is poor. at least with Ajax live search it is. The ultimate question is if smart search does it, why not simple search :P lol
A blog layout is sorely needed imo

Sorry but I don't understand your comment

@brianteeman its ok, lets worry about that on another issue/pr
for now lets worry about searchphrase

@nibra can’t we do this with OR statements? If we explode on a space?

It is of course possible to add a search query parser. The problem IMO is to make it intuitive to use.
AND (all) and OR (any) are already implemented - they're just not searching for whole words.

I was thinking more of a search option config for now, opposed to allowing the user control. We could allow overriding at a later date to give user control in search it desired.

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AND (all) and OR (any) are already implemented - they're just not searching for whole words.
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Adding this feature for Joomla 3.x is nearly impossible, mainly because you are requesting a new behavior for com_search, but which at the same time requires all existing search plugins to be modified to support this feature. For Joomla 4.0 I hope to make this unnecessary, too, because we hopefully remove com_search and all related plugins for 4.0. Feel free to help making this possible and improving searching in Joomla by testing these PRs:

• #20185 [4.0] Removing artificial sharding from com_finder
• #20384 [4.0] Removing terms tuples from com_finder
• #20391 [4.0] Using language specific tokeniser and stemmer for com_finder

I did spend quite some time on this but it is virtually impossible for the reasons stated by @Hackwar

If you really need this functionality today in J3 then you will have to use smart-search.