Forum search word-length bug

[eli.stair]

FYI, I'm finding it impossible to search for many of the terms necessary to satisfy my "read all posts before asking a question" philosophy because there is a bug in the forum policies. Currently there is a minimum 4-character-per-word restriction REGARDLESS of how many words are used, resulting in this error:

The search term you specified (php) 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.

This is making it impossible to find anything relating to "cvs checkout", "xml template", "php database schema", or anything else useful with 3-letter acronyms or words _anywhere_ in the search terms. Can we get this fixed up?

Thanks!

/eli

[qix]

I agree, most of the time I would also like to search for 3 letter acronyms in combination with an other word which doesn't really work

[Alexei]

I changed Forum setting to allow 3 letters, but it does not work. Probably something related to limitations of full-text indexes of MySQL. I don't know how to fix this yet.

[Niels]

If you've changed the MySQL variables "ft_min_word_len" or "ft_max_word_len", you probably just need to rebuild the index. Try "REPAIR TABLE tablename QUICK", that does the trick, afair.

[Alexei]

I am aware about these variables. Anyway, it seems I managed to solve this problem differently. Please let me know if the search works fine now.

[Niels]

It looks fine, thanks!