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Search plugin – is it possible to search case insensitive?

• • Andrea Milano

    Participant

    # 2 years, 1 month ago

    Good afternoon,
    forgive me there is already a reply, english isn’t my mother tongue. I’m using the WP Customer Area – Search plugin, as you can see from the attached image:
    In the orange frame you can see the superlongname file containing ODIGIE.
    In the blue frame if I input odigie the plugin can’t match anything.
    In the green frame if I input ODIGIE the plugin can correctly find the file.

    As far as I understand the results are case sensitive. There is a way to make it work as case insensitive? Because I’m sure, clients will drive me crazy about this.

    Thanks in advance
  • Andrea Milano

    Participant

    # 2 years, 1 month ago

    My bad to not being more specific: I meant case insensitive through filename
  • Andrea Milano

    Participant

    # 2 years, 1 month ago

    Good morning,
    forgive me if there is already a reply, english isn’t my mother tongue and can’t find it.
    I bought the WP Customer Area – Search plugin, while testing it I found that is case sensitive for filenames.

    As you can see from the attached image:
    In the orange frame you can see the superlongname file containing ODIGIE.
    In the blue frame if I input odigie the plugin can’t match anything.
    In the green frame if I input ODIGIE the plugin can correctly find the file.

    As far as I understand the results regarding files are case sensitive. There is a way to make it work as case insensitive? If I am doing something wrong would you point me to the solution?

    Thanks in advance
  • Andrea Milano

    Participant

    # 2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,
    forgive me if there is already a reply, my limited intellectual abilities can’t let me find it.

    I bought the WP Customer Area – Search plugin, while testing it I found that is case sensitive for filenames.

    As you can see from the attached image:
    In the orange frame you can see the superlongname file containing ODIGIE.
    In the blue frame if I input odigie the plugin can’t match anything.
    In the green frame if I input ODIGIE the plugin can correctly find the file.

    As far as I understand the results regarding files are case sensitive. There is a way to make it work as case insensitive? If I am doing something wrong would you point me to the solution?

    Thanks in advance
  • Vincent Mimoun-Prat

    Keymaster

    # 2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    Until we make a new release, you could change the file src/php/search-addon.class.php like that to allow case-insensitive search:

    • Lines 113-144, add one line in between

    $result = [];

    $ciCriteria = strtolower($criteria['query']);

    foreach ($posts->posts as $post)

    • Lines 119-120, update them like that:

    if (strpos(strtolower($file['file']), $ciCriteria) === false

    && strpos(strtolower($file['caption']), $ciCriteria) === false)

    That should do what you want.
    • Andrea Milano

      Participant

      # 2 years, 1 month ago

      It works smoothly. Thanks indeed.

      Just a note for your next release, would be nice if multiple keywords could be used in the search form.

      Have a nice day,
      A.M.