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!