Thread: Searching with and without punctuation should work

> > Will this work for singular and plural words for search? > > That's what morphology/stemming does. > Ok Barry. I have one more doubt regarding this. We are using PHP API to fetch the results. $cl->SetMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_ALL); $result = $cl->Query('biblical theology' 'authoridx' ); When we use MatchMode as "SPH_MATCH_ALL" We need the search words should be stemmed....

make sure you have index_exact_words enabled in your index definition (so that the index supports both stemmed and non stemmed searches). Then for the 'any' query actually do $cl->SetMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2); $result = $cl->Query('=biblical | =theology' 'authoridx' ); (stemming is used on all searches, except prefixing the word with = and using SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2 - but requires 0.9.9 I beleive)