[ALanJay]

I discovered that when you change the word lenght (or the stop bits file) you have to fully stop "searchd" and restart it for the changes to be taken into account.

Once searchd was restarted it behaved as expected.

Another query / thought. I have been so impressed by Sphinx that over the last couple of days we have impelemented a search of our non forum content using it. It works well. But I then thought it might be nice to create a simple search for the forums.

If anyone is interested I have some very basic code to do this - started with the code from test.php and once a valid result is found it does a search in the forum trhead database for the thread $docinfo[group2]

$article_query = "SELECT title, threadid FROM ???_forum.thread WHERE threadid='$docinfo[group2]'";

From there you can select the article trhead and create a simple output page.

If anyone in interest in more details shout and I might clean up the code so it can be looked at by all you pros