vBulletin Fulltext Search

[xnetco]

Hello.

I've switched a forum over to the fulltext search although I've noticed some keywords are no longer working now. For example if I search for 17-40L and it comes up with zero results.

Any ideas why this might be?

Tim

[Steve Machol]

That would be considered two words: 17 and 40L

Have you tried putting that in quotes?

Note: MySQL fulltext search has a 4 character minimum word length by default. This can only be changed on the server level. There are also a number of 'stopwords' that are considered common and not indexed.

Here are the instructions for changing the default 4 character minimum in MySQL's full text search indexing:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...57&postcount=7

Here's the list of MySQL stopwords that will not be indexed:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...stopwords.html

[mbooth]

Thanks Steve, even putting it in quotes is returning zero results.
I feared the answer would be as you state, that it is being considered as two words.

I wonder if there is any way to force the indexing of the "-" character as exactly that, a character not an operator (when indexing).

[mbooth]

Little bump. Is there any way of changing fulltext to index - as a valid character?
If not, then we may need to revert to internal vb search for now.

[Steve Machol]

Sorry, I don't understand the question. Please explain.

[mbooth]

Thanks Steve

What I meant was that because the "-" character is treated as an operator, and not actually a character to search for...., was there anyway to force this

Reason being, our forum contains alot of terms with "-" in them, so need to be searchable......

We did revert back to internal vBulletin search again though so I suppose the question is moot now.

Thanks anyway!