# Search functionality in vBulletin message board

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-functionality-in-vbulletin-message-board/14755>\
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**Created:** [March 2, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-functionality-in-vbulletin-message-board/14755 "2003-03-02T10:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![CyanBlue](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cyanblue/32/175_2.png) [@CyanBlue](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CyanBlue)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-functionality-in-vbulletin-message-board/14755/1 "2003-03-02T10:20:17Z")

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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”???

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-functionality-in-vbulletin-message-board/14755/2 "2003-03-02T15:55:42Z")

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this is advanced as it gets:

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**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…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-functionality-in-vbulletin-message-board/14755/3 "2003-03-02T23:14:49Z")

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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…