General Support: Search for multiple keywords?

I'm using Plogger RC1 at "www DOT adcmobile DOT com/plogger/" and have a problem with search that is driving me banannas: I am cataloging all of our car stereo installations, and need to be able to search for particular year and make/model to narrow down results, for instance "2010 Prius" so as to find images taken of installations in the 2010 Prius. Sounds simple, but no matter what method I use (and I've been through every post here regarding multiple keyword searching), I cannot get search to return ONLY "2010 Prius" images! It will always return ALL images that have EITHER "2010" OR "Prius". I've not modified the search functionality from stock (I don't believe, anyway), but none of the methods others use has any effect on my database.

Any ideas?

Walt

Yes - I've tried all of the combinations you've mentioned in all the postings related to search and none of them work correctly from the search box. Try this (I know about the escape characters for "+", but it doesn't make any difference):

"https://adcmobile.com/plogger/index.php?searchterms=2010+highlander&level=search" or "https://adcmobile.com/plogger/index.php?searchterms=2010+%252B+highlander&level=search" and you'll get back all images that contain "EITHER" 2010 "OR" Highlander, but NOT "2010 Highlander"

I'm stumped...

Walt

Thanks for the quick response! I've not done any redirects or other modifications to the script at all - in fact, I just upgraded to RC1 to try and alleviate the problem. I am using a slightly modified "Broadway" theme, but that involved only a few changes to CSS & a couple graphics. If you have a known good script that I can replace for search, you can email it to waltATadcmobileDOTcom, or if there is any other logging I can do to find out where the request gets modified, I'll investigate it.

Is there another working installation that you can direct me to that I can compare search terms and performance?

Thanks again for the help - I really love this program and have suggested it to numerous manufacturers for their own use.

Walt

Added the code and still no luck, unless you can get results from it that I can't. It still returns the same "2010%252BHighlander" in the search results. Here's rows 1943-1948 from plog-functions.php as it now exists:

function plogger_init_search($arr) {
global $PLOGGER_DBH;
$arr['searchterms'] = urldecode(urldecode($arr['searchterms']));
$terms = explode(' ', $arr['searchterms']);
$from = 0;
$limit = 20;

Is there a way to strip only the "52" from the search result leaving "%2B", or is there anything specific that needs to defined to work on a secure site?

Walt

Sorry for the delay (I attended CES in Vegas), but neither fix works:

If I search for "2010+Prius" (of which there are DOZENS of images that match), I get NO RESULTS, (and we still get %252 returned in the address bar of the browser, but the status on the searchbar in Plogger shows we searched for %2B and got no results):

Browser address bar result: https://adcmobile.com/plogger/index.php?searchterms=2010%252BPrius&level=search
Plogger search results: Installations » Search » You searched for 2010%2BPrius.

Weird!

Here's the entire section starting at Line 1943:

function plogger_init_search($arr) {
global $PLOGGER_DBH;
$arr['searchterms'] = str_replace('%25', '%', $arr['searchterms']); - (or alternatively) $arr['searchterms'] = urldecode($arr['searchterms']);
$terms = explode(' ', $arr['searchterms']);
$from = 0;
$limit = 20;

Also, (and this problem has existed for a number of months), after about the second or third search in a row, the searches are locking up and making my entire site time out! Literally, the entire site goes down until the searches time out (I'm guessing). Any ideas on any of that stuff? I may have to remove the whole Plogger install if it continues (and that's gonna kill me...) :- (

Walt