Quote from: Oshyan on September 12, 2018, 10:04:53 PM
Agree, SMF search is terrible.
You might want to take a look at or even work on updating this search plugin:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=887
We used to use it but it hasn't been updated in ages and I'm not sure it works with the latest SMF.
- Oshyan
This seems to be doing almost everything I think the search engine should be doing, thanks for linking that. I'm having trouble installing SMF 2.0.15 under PHP7 under Windows 10, and I suspect it's something to do with windows. I manually installed PHP, apache, and all that like I usually do, but haven't installed a suite since Win7 as I had access to a few dedicated servers I was managing for a friend so didn't need anything on my home PC.
Might try WAMP again, though it used to be just terrible for building for a real server environment in my experience in the early 2000s.
I also see the plugin CMS can generate instructions for 2.0.15 so I can definitely test it's compatibility and see what's buggy. I see their last updates were for fixes for PHP4 so I am assuming there is deprecated function use. Not always a bad thing but some deprecated functions I think are no longer standard use because of security concerns.