Change the Search indexing minimum to 3 characters

[PatronSaintofChainsaws]

Seriously. There's enough watch-related terms that are 3 characters to justify it.

Having a search for "gmt 089" return empty results is no fun.

[Sbrubb]

I concur. It is a bigger load on the server from what I understand though.

[PatronSaintofChainsaws]

I concur. It is a bigger load on the server from what I understand though.

Definitely higher CPU/RAM utilization, depending on how the search cache is set up and such. Then again, having people rerun searches over and over again in an attempt to find a term that can stand in place of the 3-character term they want to use also adds load

[FiFi]

F the search function.

Let's just keep asking the same questions page after page after page.

I've never had any decent luck with the search function here. I scroll back a few pages in the section I think the answer will be in, and if I don't see it, I post.

[Drhulee]

Seem to remember that I started a thread and poll about this somewhere...

[PatronSaintofChainsaws]

Seem to remember that I started a thread and poll about this somewhere...

I'll search for it

[Drhulee]

I'll search for it

I take it that LOL is due to the fact that it only a few threads down from this one , because if you do search for "search" it will pop right up.

[Sparty]

If this was a normal forum, I would suggest Google searching the forums...

[Drhulee]

If this was a normal forum, I would suggest Google searching the forums...

As far as google is concerned, it is a normal forum. I've tried the "google" route, but is always quite out-of-date.

[Sparty]

As far as google is concerned, it is a normal forum. I've tried the "google" route, but is always quite out-of-date.

Interesting. I thought they had this site blocked from crawlers.

[Drhulee]

Interesting. I thought they had this site blocked from crawlers.

Nope. I think they actually enabled some options to help with google indexing it.

[Franke]

Seriously. There's enough watch-related terms that are 3 characters to justify it.

This is only possible if the crew can modify the php settings, as the limit of 4 is set in php. Trying to set it to 3 whitout having access to php is a dead end..

[sixbennetts]

Isn't there a wildcard character, like * or something that you can add to a short phrase?

[PatronSaintofChainsaws]

This is only possible if the crew can modify the php settings, as the limit of 4 is set in php. Trying to set it to 3 whitout having access to php is a dead end..

If it's anything like phpBB, there should be a setting in the Admin control panel that's allows changing the search indexing minimum. It's quite literally a one-click change in phpBB. It has a lot more to do with the database (MySQL, etc.), than it does PHP.

Isn't there a wildcard character, like * or something that you can add to a short phrase?

You can't wildcard something that the search mechanism hasn't indexed at all. As far as search is concerned, words less than the minimum number of characters don't exist.

[Franke]

It's quite literally a one-click change in phpBB. It has a lot more to do with the database (MySQL, etc.), than it does PHP.

Doesn´t matter what you set it to in phpBB. It can not override the php/mysql settings. If you set it to 2 and php/mysql settings are 4, it will still be 4 after you set it to 2. Thats my point.

Changing to full text search maks this functin a little stronger.

[PatronSaintofChainsaws]

Doesn´t matter what you set it to in phpBB. It can not override the php/mysql settings. If you set it to 2 and php/mysql settings are 4, it will still be 4 after you set it to 2. Thats my point.

And my point is that no such limitation exists in PHP, nor can such a setting be configured via php.ini. Granted, having an extension like memcache or xcache enabled might activate some bizarre limitations that I'm not familiar with (although I've used both and never encountered such a thing), but as far as I am aware, there's no such limitation.

[Pugwash]

And my point is that no such limitation exists in PHP, nor can such a setting be configured via php.ini. Granted, having an extension like memcache or xcache enabled might activate some bizarre limitations that I'm not familiar with (although I've used both and never encountered such a thing), but as far as I am aware, there's no such limitation.

As far as I have understood it, he's talking about it being in the PHP source code for phpBB. If you don't have r/w access to the phpBB code, you can't change the minimum search length indexed.

[Pugwash]

I say change it. CPU is cheap.

[rex450]

I am noticing that there are bad searches

Like for me "rex" won't work anymore.

[J-C]

Search index is requiring a bit of extra tweaking ... we have quite a few projects/upgrades we're working on.

It's on the list, please be patient.

[Drhulee]

Search index is requiring a bit of extra tweaking ... we have quite a few projects/upgrades we're working on.

It's on the list, please be patient.

Not sure what's going on in the above posts but it's good to know that you're planning on doing something about the search system.

[peaece13]

Not sure what's going on in the above posts but it's good to know that you're planning on doing something about the search system.

+1


thanks for the update jc

[Franke]

Is repgeek running on a private, dedicated server, or is hosted at a webhotel?

If its indeed running on a private server whit access to all settings, this can easily be fixed. If, however, a webhost is involved, it´s up to them to tweak the nessesary mysql settings.