allow searches for 2 and 3 letter words?

[abel]

how do i allow searches for 2 and 3 letter words?

we have a bunch of stuff that only requires 3 letters like RRS and Bag etc etc

is there a way to edit this so VB will allow members to search for short items like that

thanks

[Steve Machol]

If you are using the default vB search option you can change this here:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Search Index Minimum Word Length and Search Index Maximum Word Length

You will need to rebuild the search index after doing this.

If you are running Fulltext search, then MySQL is limited to a minimum of 4 characters by default. Here are the instructions for changing the default 4 character minimum in MySQL's full text search indexing:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=903957&postcount=7

[abel]

awesome... how do i rebuild the search index?

thanks in advance.

[abel]

it also seems im using VB Search

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Your forum is currently using the vBulletin search engine.

To enable the MySQL Fulltext search, we will issue the following two queries. If for some reason this process is unsuccessful, you will need to perform these queries manually. Please be patient as this can take from 10 seconds to an hour depending on the number of posts on your forum.

[Steve Machol]

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Search Index

[abel]

thanks a ton.