I believe the original poster did so. I just wanted to call attention to it, because there is a common request for a change to minimum search length that gets the 'that is just how mysql works' canned response (which it should), and that was the response this was getting here - whereas it's really a different issue. That's all, thanks
Requesting a change in the minimum search word length, and stating that the way vBulletin works now is incorrect are 2 different things.
So if the question is still "Do you plan to reduce the minimum search lenght on a short term?", then the answer is No.
Requesting a change in the minimum search word length, and stating that the way vBulletin works now is incorrect are 2 different things.
So if the question is still "Do you plan to reduce the minimum search lenght on a short term?", then the answer is No.
That was never the question. Quoting the first post:
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However I dislike the way it doesn't search if only one term is under the minimum.
Eg: If I search for Admin login as user it won't go ahead with the search because the word as is there.
I think it should complete the search however on the results page it should tell you the following words were not included in your search.
As it states, and as I stated, the bug is that if a word that is too small is included in a search phrase, the entire phrase is ignored and no results are returned. "Login as User" returns no results, because of "as".
Marco I do not mean to change the mysql setting, I mean change your vB setting, that way when people search for words such as to, they do not get an annoying error but still the mysql server doesn't give any results for two charactered words.
The vBulletin minimum search word length (and most other search related settings) have no effect when you are using the MySQL fulltext search. These only affect the buildin vB search type.
Sorry if you are misunderstanding me but I know it will have no effect unless the mysql one is also changed, however I am saying you should change it to two anyway so that people do not get an error such as this:
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The search term you specified (as) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer. If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.
07-07-2007, 07:33 AM
Should have been unnecessary though. It's really a vb bug, and I don't know why that's being resisted so strongly. Good work, Dismounted 
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