1647 Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 I don't know how productive this comment is, but here goes While doing a search every 'term' that is below 4 character will generate an 'error' response, this makes it very difficult to search for specifics such as 'ics mp5' (I remember I did not have this problem with the previous forum you guys had) hope this is of help to you........... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sp00n Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 The error may be because it doesnt exist yet, the forums got wiped and there isnt much here yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
R22Master Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Nope, it's a problem with the engine. For example, do a search for "MP5". There is a topic in the General discussion that has MP5 in its title and in the thread. This post I am writing, also uses MP5 several times. It doesn't even try to search, as it complains that it needs 4 characters minimum. This could be quite a handicap considering all the useful terms one might want to use to find out about a gun they want to purchase... e.g. MP5, M16, G36, M11, 92f, G19, USP, 8mm, KJW, 18c, PPK, TMP, ICS, CA, TM, WA, KSC, KWA, etc... All unsearchable. Arnie will get round to it soon, but he's a busy chap at the moment. The fact that this topic has been posted means that he knows about the problem and will deal with it as soon as he can. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tripod Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 (edited) what about H&K MP5, H&K G36, KSC M11, KWA M11, TM G36 yatta yatta.... EDIT:Yeah...that doesn't work. Hmmmm Edited September 9, 2004 by Tripod Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Is this fixed now? When I do a search for 'FSS', I get nothing - not even an error message (and I know there's posts with that term in them). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 According to what I've seen elsewhere the searching algorithm Invision uses is MySQL's fulltext searching capabilities, which has a default minimum search limit of 4 characters. The only way to change this value is to edit the MySQL configuration file, restart the MySQL server, and to rebuild the fulltext index. (http://forums.oscommerce.com/lofiversion/index.php/t114641.html) I don't think that this is a feasable solution really as I don't want to have to rebuild tables and config files, if you want to search for a shorter term use google to search the forum, that's much easier. It's dead easy to restrict a search on google to this site alone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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