- If app doesn't specify columns to search, all columns except numerics with '_id', 'modified', 'modifier', 'status', 'cat_id', 'owner' will be considered
- Numeric columns will be searched only if the search string contains a numeric token. 'maintenance 50' is ok to search for, but for numeric columns only 50 will be searched.
- Numeric columns are searched using equality, unless user puts in a wildcard. Searching for 50 will only match 50, not 150 or 1950/04/10, but *50 will match 150.
- Text columns are searched using LIKE, including numeric search terms, as before.
- All words are trimmed
- Double quotes require the exact phrase ("Nathan Gray" will not match Nathan Brown or Gray Power)
- Modifiers + and - before a word will require or exclude the word (+test -fail), otherwise word is ORed
- User language modifiers AND, OR and NOT (uppercase) will be parsed.
- Combinations: tracker entry -testing -"fatal error"
Note that "entry" will not match "entries", and the results are not sorted by match strength.
All applications that use so_sql for searching should gain these benefits.
- use new egw_time::server2user() and egw_time::user2server() to do
timezone conversation of registered timestamps
- added $timestamp_type parameter to constructor, to automatic convert
all timestamps on read (or search) to given type, default NULL leaves
them unchanged --> will allow in future to work completly with
egw_time objects
- search($criteria,...) if $criteria is a string, search in all data
columns or - if set - $this->columns_to_search
--> that's NOT backward compatible - though a quick scan through the
EGroupware code showed no use of $criteria as string!
- this automatic search, appends and prepends '%' only, if search
pattern does NOT already contain wildcards (* or ?)
--> allows to search "test*" for values starting with test
- improved handling of db timestamps (Y-m-d H:i:s), to allow to search
for them too (eg. "2009-08-*")
- so_sql_cf::get_rows() now calls parent
- so_sql_cf::search() adds DISTINCT if query contains a join
--> ToDo: remove custom search code from apps, to give consitent search
behavior in all apps and simplify the code there
Patch is mostly created by script in egroupware/doc/fix_depricated.php in separate commit.
I do NOT advice to apply this patch to a production system (it's commited to trunk!), as the automatic modified regular expressions have a good change to break something ...
If you want to use it, you only need to set the timestamps to be converted from user to servertime in so_sql::timestamps AND dont reimplemnt db2data/data2db (or call the default implementation)"
