Search function and special characters æøå
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Hello everyone,
I have been struggling with the search function. It seems that words containing special characters like æ, ø and å are returning with no results. My site is hosted by concrete5. Im running concrete5 version 5.4.1.1. I have checked the database and Collation is set to utf8_general_ci.
The search controller.php file is containing this line of code:
and this line:
Do I need to change the regular expressions and somehow include the special characters before I can make the search function work with special characters. ?
Thank you in advance.
I have been struggling with the search function. It seems that words containing special characters like æ, ø and å are returning with no results. My site is hosted by concrete5. Im running concrete5 version 5.4.1.1. I have checked the database and Collation is set to utf8_general_ci.
The search controller.php file is containing this line of code:
$regex = '([a-z|A-Z|0-9|\.|_|\s]{0,45})'. $highlight .'([a-z|A-Z|0-9|\.|_|\s]{0,45})';
and this line:
$_q = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z\']/i', '', $_REQUEST['query']);
Do I need to change the regular expressions and somehow include the special characters before I can make the search function work with special characters. ?
Thank you in advance.
Any luck with this one? I'm also struggling with searches containing accented characters like "ä" and "ö"...
I changed the regex to include German Umlaute (that was my problem) with this change:
Try inserting an echp $p; and echo $_p; to find out what happens there. In my case the added characters just were removed by the regex.
hope this helps.
$_q = preg_replace('/[^A-ZÄÜÖa-zäöüß\']/i', '', $_REQUEST['query']);
Try inserting an echp $p; and echo $_p; to find out what happens there. In my case the added characters just were removed by the regex.
hope this helps.
Thanks a lot! Problem solved.
Try adding the latest version of the controller.php from the repository like suggested here.http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/a-weird-se... then everything should work fine.
