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Thread began 1/01/2017 4:35 am by Jamie | Last modified 1/03/2017 10:30 am by Ray Borduin | 1207 views | 4 replies |

1/01/2017 4:35 am | #1 Jamie

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Hey Ray

If I wanted to set up a textarea for a client to put key phrases/words to be included within the search criteria would the data be better set up as comma or space separated?

Cheers and best wishes for 2017!

Jamie

1/02/2017 10:08 am | #2 Ray BorduinWebAssist

If you do space separated it wouldn't be able to search on multiple word phrases. Comma separated is a bit more intuitive. So there are pros and cons to both. If it is always single words that people search for then I'd go space separated.

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1/02/2017 11:31 am | #3 Jamie

thanks Ray

would a carriage return equate to a space (eg if I was to stipulate 1 keyword per line)?

1/02/2017 2:43 pm | #4 Ray BorduinWebAssist

You could use str_replace() to replace carriage returns with spaces for codnsistency.

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1/02/2017 9:48 pm | #5 Jamie

gotcha, thanks

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