'words' => true not affecting search results

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

I’m searching a collection using the following:

<?php

return function ($kirby) {

  $query   = get('q');
  $results = $kirby->collection("searchable")->search($query, array('fields' => ['title', 'tags'], 'words' => true, 'minlength' => 4));

  return [
    'query'   => $query,
    'results' => $results,
  ];

};

I have a bunch of pages in the collection with the word ‘Test’ in the title and they all show up when I search for the strings ‘Tes’, ‘Te’, ‘T’, etc… Isn’t words => true supposed to stop this, or am I misunderstanding how it works?

2

Hm, if your minlength is set to 4 characters, and your search string length is shorter than that, your search words are in fact empty and nothing should be returned.

3

I’ve switched it to this to test but I’m still getting the same results described above:

$results = $site->search($query, ['words' => true, 'minlength' => 4]);

I’m stumped as to what the problem is as my implementation is identical to that of the search documentation.

4

Hm, guess we have to properly debug what’s happening.

5

What’s the best way to approach this? When I remove the ‘words’ parameter the results don’t change at all, but when I remove ‘minLength’ they do, despite it not appearing to work as expected.

6

I currently have the same issue. Adding 'words' => true doesn’t change anything. Searching for special will also include search results with the word especially.

How can we debug this? It seems like the function does not do anything: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/3.3.6/src/Cms/Search.php#L65-L67

7

We should debug this with xdebug, haven’t got round to it yet. Maybe create an issue if this is still true with 3.4-rc1?

8

I’ve tried 3.4.0-rc.2 but words => true still does not make a difference to the results.

9

I added an issue: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues/2698