Speeding up the gcontact search

boot.php

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ define ( 'FRIENDICA_PLATFORM',     'Friendica');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_CODENAME',     'Asparagus');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.5-dev' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.23'    );
-define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1194      );
+define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1195      );
 
 /**
  * @brief Constant with a HTML line break.

database.sql

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -- ------------------------------------------
 -- Friendica 3.5-dev (Asparagus)
--- DB_UPDATE_VERSION 1194
+-- DB_UPDATE_VERSION 1195
 -- ------------------------------------------
 
 
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `contact` (
 	`fetch_further_information` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 	`ffi_keyword_blacklist` mediumtext NOT NULL,
 	 PRIMARY KEY(`id`),
-	 INDEX `uid` (`uid`)
+	 INDEX `uid` (`uid`),
+	 INDEX `nurl` (`nurl`)
 ) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 
 --
@@ -333,7 +334,9 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `gcontact` (
 	`generation` tinyint(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 	`server_url` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
 	 PRIMARY KEY(`id`),
-	 INDEX `nurl` (`nurl`),
+	 INDEX `name` (`name`),
+	 INDEX `nick` (`nick`),
+	 INDEX `addr` (`addr`),
 	 INDEX `updated` (`updated`)
 ) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 

include/DirSearch.php

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ class DirSearch {
 			else
 				$extra_sql = "";
 
+			$search .= "%";
+
 			$results = q("SELECT `contact`.`id` AS `cid`, `gcontact`.`url`, `gcontact`.`name`, `gcontact`.`nick`, `gcontact`.`photo`,
 							`gcontact`.`network`, `gcontact`.`keywords`, `gcontact`.`addr`, `gcontact`.`community`
 						FROM `gcontact`
@@ -46,10 +48,10 @@ class DirSearch {
 							AND NOT `contact`.`pending` AND `contact`.`rel` IN ('%s', '%s')
 						WHERE (`contact`.`id` > 0 OR (NOT `gcontact`.`hide` AND `gcontact`.`network` IN ('%s', '%s', '%s') AND
 						((`gcontact`.`last_contact` >= `gcontact`.`last_failure`) OR (`gcontact`.`updated` >= `gcontact`.`last_failure`)))) AND
-						(`gcontact`.`addr` REGEXP '%s' OR `gcontact`.`name` REGEXP '%s' OR `gcontact`.`nick` REGEXP '%s') $extra_sql
+						(`gcontact`.`addr` LIKE '%s' OR `gcontact`.`name` LIKE '%s' OR `gcontact`.`nick` LIKE '%s') $extra_sql
 							GROUP BY `gcontact`.`nurl`
 							ORDER BY `gcontact`.`nurl` DESC
-							LIMIT 40",
+							LIMIT 1000",
 						intval(local_user()), dbesc(CONTACT_IS_SHARING), dbesc(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND),
 						dbesc(NETWORK_DFRN), dbesc($ostatus), dbesc($diaspora),
 						dbesc(escape_tags($search)), dbesc(escape_tags($search)), dbesc(escape_tags($search)));

include/dbstructure.php

@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ function db_definition() {
 			"indexes" => array(
 					"PRIMARY" => array("id"),
 					"uid" => array("uid"),
+					"nurl" => array("nurl"),
 					)
 			);
 	$database["conv"] = array(
@@ -669,7 +670,9 @@ function db_definition() {
 					),
 			"indexes" => array(
 					"PRIMARY" => array("id"),
-					"nurl" => array("nurl"),
+					"name" => array("name"),
+					"nick" => array("nick"),
+					"addr" => array("addr"),
 					"updated" => array("updated"),
 					)
 			);

update.php

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-define( 'UPDATE_VERSION' , 1194 );
+define('UPDATE_VERSION' , 1195);
 
 /**
  *