If it hasn't got any results, it shows the standard "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." error.

Right. But isn't that misleading? It leads the user to believe they searched for three words when really they only searched on one.

I my opinion it's much more annoying not even getting any results because one word was 3 letters and another word was 4

Example in the regular search

hat - no results because of 3 letter word
hat stand - no results because of 3 letter word in phrase
stand - produces results

Example with this mod:

hat stand - produces some results because it bypasses the 3 letter word error

I love this idea, vbulletin should have this built in.

but the first search I did "a family guy" changed my search to "fmily"

when I search for "b family guy" then it searches for "family" like it is suppose to.

I just searched for "I family" and it was changed to "famly" so it seems to do it with other characters also.

Hack Updated!

22/07/2007 - Version 1.2
- Fixed Letter Instances Issue

Great hack Dismounted...;)

One little glitch: the automatic version checking from ACP doesn't work. Could you look into it? I just upgraded to 1.2 and if I do the check version it tells me last version is 1.0.

Thanks for your work. :)

Never mind, I just noticed that the problem is the version number of the hack on THIS thread...you should update it...;)

Whoops, fixed.

Very nice, just upgraded from VB 3.6.1 to 3.6.8 and I thought my members were going to lynch me.

Such a great hack! Great Job! Thanks!

thx :)

Brilliant dismounted, jelsoft should have thought of this.I always hate that "too short message".

hum, btw, a little note... why do you add a setting to activate it, if the only thing we need to do is deactivate the product if we do not need it?!... this is redundant and add more entries to the settings table... my 2?.. ;)

btw, where is the vote button?

Yeah, it's just a habit really. The vote button is under "Mod Information" :).

Sorry to say that i had a problem installing. Does it work on 3.5.x?

Yes, but you need to remove all instaces of this in the product install file:

thanks man

Very nice modification, thank you for this!

This should be part of vbulletin. Thanks for the hack!!

I had this installed, but it isn't allowing users to use the words in my 'goodwords' options. Looking at the code, it looks like my users should be able to search for these 'goodwords', but they aren't. I'm running 3.6.8 PL2. Is anyone else seeing this problem?

There seems to be a bug with searches wrapped in quotes.

When I search for "Sketches By Boz" with Continue Search enabled, the result is no matches and the text in the search form is changed to "sketches*boz".

When I search for "Sketches By Boz" with Continue Search disabled, the proper matches are returned.

I'll have a look at it.

will this work in 3.7 RC1

This is standard functionality in vBulletin 3.7.

works great on 3.8.2

Read above what Dismounted had said.

There is no need for this mod in 3.8.* and 3.7.* as this is standard functionality in vBulletin.