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Search returns no results for three letter terms

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:51 pm
by cday
When searching the forum for posts containing a three character term such as skf or dxf or jp2 no results are returned...

Re: Search returns no results for three letter terms

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:39 pm
by DOS386
cday wrote:When searching the forum for posts containing a three character term such as skf or dxf or jp2 no results are returned...
Known problem of PHPBB forum software.

Re: Search returns no results for three letter terms

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:30 pm
by XnTriq

Re: Search returns no results for three-letter terms

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:00 am
by XnTriq
cday ([url=http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=119711#p119711]Created PDF files are HUGE!!![/url]) wrote:
mrjacoby1 wrote:... searching for the letters "PDF" returns zero results in this forum
For some reason the phpBB format doesn't return results for three-character strings, which is particularly unfortunate for computing topics where file formats are usually three-characters...
This is due to a limitation in MySQL. The forum's search backend has now been switched from Fulltext mysql to Fulltext native, and the search index has been updated.

Test: Forum search for keyword “pdf

Re: Search returns no results for three-letter terms

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 9:44 pm
by cday
XnTriq wrote:
cday wrote:
mrjacoby1 wrote:... searching for the letters "PDF" returns zero results in this forum
For some reason the phpBB format doesn't return results for three-character strings, which is particularly unfortunate for computing topics where file formats are usually three-characters...
This is due to a limitation in MySQL. The forum's search backend has now been switched from Fulltext mysql to Fulltext native, and the search index has been updated.
Thanks, that should be very useful... :D

The Forum search facility now supports searches for three-character terms... :D :D