Searching bug?
 

I want to search for the word "beyond" I knew this was in the badwords.php, but I have cleared my badwords.php file out so I know that it isn't blocking it because of something in there. I still have the header and footer part in my badwords.php file, I just took out all the words because I want my search feature to actuall search. Anywho, can somebody tell me why my search feature still won't find the word beyond in any posts, even though I have a post that was posted today that has the word in it?

I'm confused. Shouldn't this work?

Dont remove badwords.php contents, it will kill your search index.

I didn't say I removed it. I deleted all the entries in it and left the top and bottom. I also noticed that it has started to do it with other words as well. Is there a limit to how big a search index can be? If I put in the word "far" it finds two results. If I put in the words "far cry" it finds two results. If I put in the word "cry" it finds 84 results.

I'm wondering if the search index can only get so big before it starts overwriting itself.

I checked and my search index has 4,449,304 records and is 105.2 MB but my site is just starting. I have a lot of entries and I one single letter searches due to the function of my site. Could I have some how hit a problem with the search feature of VB? Should I try and rebuild my search index to fix the problem? Could rebuilding the search index take a lot of time due to the site and records I have?

Please help as the search feature is a major function of my website. :(

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Bump. I'm going to bump this every 24 hours so you might as well answer. (hey 24 hours is within the rules. :p) Please help. :(

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Please don't bypass the bad-words filter :)

Did you rebuild the search index?

Few people will reply if you constantly bump, so beware.

No I haven't rebuilt it yet. I was asking if that was something I should do? I know very little about how all that works and I wasn't sure how long it would take. I have my search feature able to enter single character searches so my search is getting pretty big, but it's all part of the way I want the site to work.

Should I rebuild my search index and see if that fixes the problem I was having? :paranoid:

Because beyond was in badwords.php before, it was never added to your searchindex.

So to add it back, you need to rebuild your searchindex.

Is building the search index something that you need to turn off your forums to do? I'm on a VPS so I don't know how my server resources will handle it. Should it be fine to leave the server up while I rebuild the index?

Turn off your forums while rebuilding, or you run the risk of db corruption, and terms not being indexed.

Thanks for the help Erwin. I'm glad somebody in this thread knows WTF they're talking about. ;)