XF2 Addons Xon - Search Improvements 2.17.6

A collection of improvements to XF's Enhanced Search and some for XenForo's default MySQL search.

MySQL & Elastic Search features;

• Allow * (or empty search string) to return results, for MySQL and XFES
• range_query search DSL
  • allows arbitrary range queries for numerical data
• Allow users to select the default search order independent for the forum wide setting.
  • Re-adds the global option for the default search type
• Display search terms on...

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• Enhanced specialized search with additional debug capabilities
• Update specialized search to support SearchOrder type
• Fix XF2.1 when using specialized search functionality (aka fix tag/user autocomplete with XF2.1)

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• Fix when logging debugging for some search queries would throw unexpectedly

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• Improve handling of expired search links to return a 404 if any errors exist with the arguments as this stops google search indexer from complaining about the previous 400 error code

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• Adjust defaults for autocomplete boosts to better favor exact matches.
  • Affects non-default "Tag/Username auto-complete search field boosts" option

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• XF2.3.8 compatibility fix

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• XF2.3.8 compatibility fix
• Adjust Collect search DSL & debug statistics so Log & show on search results only displays to members by defaults and not guests.

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