Special characters or symbols in search

I don’t have time to look into this now, but it looks like you’re right, those symbols cannot be searched for. It’s only set up to search for UTF-8 alphanumerics, and I can’t tell you at this moment where to look to change it, but I’m sure it’s possible.

Thanks XNAU. I have done workaround for several hours and was unsuccessful. I know you must be busy but if you could give a hint or something like that, it would be highly appreciated. Till then anyone else who can help me???

OK, I took a look at this, and I think I found the answer. Actually, I’m glad you brought this up because it’s a potential bug.

On line 1093 of classes/PDb_List.class.php you have the line:

$value = urldecode($string);

change it to:

$value = preg_match('/%[0-9]{2}/',$string) ? rawurldecode($string) : $string;

should solve it for you.

OK, minor change on that code I gave you:

$value = preg_match('/%[0-9A-F]{2}/',$string) ? rawurldecode($string) : $string;

Yes Yes Yes…. It is working now… Thank you so much. Sorry for replying late. Thank you once again for excellent support.

Sorry to disturb you again.

Actually your code solved my problem but when search results are so many and pagination is applied, I again find that error.

I have noticed that the value of search field in url is as it is as we wrote in search box but for proper results, the symbols should be URL encoded. I replaced symbol with its URL code manually and I got correct results but for code, I don’t know how to fix it. Can you please help me?? ??

OK, here’s the fix for that:

In the file classes/PDb_Pagination.class.php, there’s two changes:

Line 310 becomes: $link = $this->link;

Line 409 becomes: return str_replace('%1$s', $pagenum, $link);

Thank you XNAU. That fix worked like a charm. I don’t think any more issues is there now, so I am marking this thread as resolved. Thanks once again.