searching for words starting w/ "mo" gives incorrect number matching docs

[cindy_walker]

Many of our webmasters add an extra line like this:

<input type=hidden name=uq value="www.dot.ca.gov/dist9%">

to limit searches to just their pages. I've found that if you search for words starting with "mo" the result page will state a higher number of matching documents than actually exist. Then when you select page 2, etc of results you see the message "No documents match the query". I tested extensively and only the words mono, move and mode cause this problem. You can see this for yourself here:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist9/temp/dist_9 ... 9_info.htm (be sure to select "this site").

What is it about words starting with "mo" causes this? More to the point, how can problem this be solved?

Thank you,

Cindy

[Kai]

It's not words starting with "mo" that cause this, but the fact that the search is restricted via $uq. The number of hits (and thus the next-page links) are determined from what the index says the total hit count is. In some instances -- such as when searching "within sentence/paragraph/line" -- the index can only estimate the hit count, and the search script corrects for this by doing a select count(*).

Restricting the query with $uq is another of these cases, but the search script didn't account for it. You can fix this by adding the following lines to the <A NAME=fpar> function in your search script:

<IF $uq neq "" or $tq neq "" or $dq neq "">
<$count = 1>
</IF>

[cindy_walker]

That did the trick! Thank you.