Search annoyances
Who uses the search? I tried it, but it keeps giving me this message, no matter what I tried:
Quote: The search term you specified (ad) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.
I believe you can change this limit in the vB CP. Can one of the administrators reduce this limit so the search is more useful? Thanks.
Mark Hensler posted this at 00:00 — 20th July 2001.
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I set it to 2, but "ad" still gets no results.
Wayne Luke posted this at 19:13 — 23rd July 2001.
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Joined: Jul 2001
You need to make sure that you reindex the search engine tables after you change the search word length.
You can do this by going into the control panel and selecting update counters. The form for resetting the search engine is near the bottom. It is fairly resource intensive but you shouldn't have to shut down the board to do it.
You might also want to check the "badword.php" file and make sure the word is not in that list. You might also want to check for words such as "as, to, me, we, do, he, she, it" etc... And make sure they are in there or your search engine tables will grow exponentially and could even double or triple in size.
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