Bug when you insert a + in the search box

[Antony]

A lot of users use the + in the search box. And sometimes
i get this error.

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 20 in /home/hoteldis/public_html/lib/category.class.php on line 608

Somebody knows how to resolve ?

Antony
Thank's for your help.

[Bruceper]

AND is implied in the search, so using + isn't necessary.

And we all need to face facts that most users (other than webmasters really) have no clue on how to do a boolean search.

Sure I agree that error shouldn't appear, but it will only affect a very small minority of your users.

[woolfie]

Bruceper is absolutely correct and the sad result is they also can get incomplete searches but using commas with some words.

I edited bgsearch.jpg with text to add an example of how to do a search showing spaces between the words. It literally says: Example (word1 word2 word3) use spaces between words and it tells them that "fewer words = bigger result and more words = smaller, more targeted result"

Hope this helps...

[Bruceper]

Or you can use the correct terms AND, OR, NOT, which long ago were simplified to characters. Yes it works, because that's how mysql works.

Try it out yourself.