Search functionality in vBulletin message board

Howdy…

Just curious…

I don’t think vBulletin support this, but I am asking this anyways…

Can I search specific phrase in the vBulletin message board???

For example, if I do the search with “Flash MX”, I get to see the whole threads that contains not only “Flash MX”, but also the ones with “Flash” and the ones with “MX”… Is there any way I could just get “Flash MX”???

this is advanced as it gets:

Advanced query: Join words with AND, OR and NOT to control your search in more detail.
Add asterisks (*) to use wild cards in your search (bullet matches vBulletin etc.)

but if you use AND then it does return threads that only have the words Flash and MX in them…

Thanks for the reply, Jubba… =)

Well… I am well aware of those words… But that doesn’t work well, at least to me…

That “Flash MX” might not be a good example…
The one that I just tried… “setInterval clearInterval” returned 8 results… I see all the threads that contains setInterval and clearInterval, but I do not see the thread that exactly says “setInterval clearInterval”… Know what I mean???
Moreover… I found a thread that contains ‘lineTo’ from those 8 threads… So, I did a search again with ‘setInterval lineTo’ and I get nothing even I KNOW that there is at least one thread that contains those two terms…

I think vBulletin uses MySQL database, and I don’t know how hard it is to implement better search capability… Of course there will be some issues such as search speed or CPU load if they implement that, but I THINK that kind of option should be available at least in the advanced search page…

Oh, well… I guess I’ll survive whether with our without that complex search capability…