Kovah/LinkAce

Case-Insensitive Search

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#993 opened on Aug 29, 2025

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Description

Summary

Searching in LinkAce appears to be case-sensitive. For example; searching for abc does not return results for links titled ABC01. This behavior has confused some users who expect searches to be case-insensitive by default.

Proposed Solution

  • Implement case-insensitive search by default for the /search page
  • Optionally provide a checkbox to enable case-sensitive search filter if needed.

Contribution

I am willing to implement this feature myself. I’d like to confirm with the maintainer:

  • Should case-insensitive search be the default behavior, with case-sensitive as an optional toggle?
  • Or do you prefer a different approach?

Additional Context

Example scenario:

  • Link: ABC01.com
  • Search query: abc01
  • Current behavior: No results.
  • Desired behavior: ABC01.com should be returned.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Inspect the search query in the codebase, likely in a repository or model class, and modify it to be case insensitive (e.g., using LOWER() or ILIKE for SQLite). Test the change with a case mismatched search.
Tech stack
phpsql
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
PHPSQL
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75