# Search

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## Introduction

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## Main page

### Searchable Areas

Searchable Areas You can set access User Class, display Order and Edit Search Config from this screen.

By default the following Core Features and Plugins are listed.

* News
* Comments
* Registered Members
* Downloads
* Custom Pages
* Chatbox
* Google

Additional Plugins will be listed here once installed.

### Searchable Comments Areas

Set User Class

## Preferences

### Search page accessible to user class

### Highlight keywords on referred to page

### Display relevance value

### Allow user to select searchable areas

### Allow users to search more than one area at a time

### Searchable areas selection method

### Restrict time allowed between searches (max 5 mins)

### Search sort method

**\* MySql**

* PHP limited to *\_* results (leave blank for no limit)

If your site includes Ideographic languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, you must use the PHP sort method.

### Only match whole words

This setting only applies when the search sort method is PHP. If your site includes Ideographic languages such as Chinese and Japanese you must have this set to off.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://userguide.e107.org/administration/settings/search.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.