fix issue for projects search using keywords with special characters

ihsn · Oct 2, 2024 · 044b078 · 044b078
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commit 044b078
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/application/libraries/Project_search.php b/application/libraries/Project_search.php
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ private function apply_search_filters($search_options)
 		//keywords
 		if (isset($search_options['keywords']) && !empty($search_options['keywords'])) {
 			$keywords_query=$this->build_keywords_fulltext_query($search_options['keywords']);
-			$escaped_keywords=$this->ci->db->escape('%'.$search_options['keywords'].'%');
+
+			$escaped_keywords=$this->ci->db->escape('%'.trim($search_options['keywords']).'%');
 			$where = sprintf('(title like %s OR idno like %s OR study_idno like %s) OR %s',
                         $escaped_keywords,
                         $escaped_keywords,
@@ -276,6 +277,10 @@ function build_keywords_like_query($keywords)
 
 	function build_keywords_fulltext_query($keywords)
 	{
+		//remove characters that are not allowed in fulltext search
+		$keywords=preg_replace('/[@+\-&|!(){}[\]^"~*?:\/\\\]/','',$keywords);
+		$keywords=trim($keywords);		
+
 		$keywords_list=explode(" ",$keywords);
 		$keyword_query=array();
 		foreach($keywords_list as $idx=>$keyword){