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Minimum search word length is 3 characters - maximum search word length is 84 characters
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Change search to 3 characters instead of 4
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simon martin
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Oct 3, 2012 - 10:26 am

My site has lots of stock tickers, and many of those are 3 characters long and I need people to be able to search for those. How would I go about making this change?

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Oct 3, 2012 - 6:26 pm

you will have to take that up with your host...  its a server mysql installation issue...  they need to change the default in mysql ini file...

ft_min_word_len=3

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Oct 3, 2012 - 11:36 pm

Interesting, thanks.

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Oct 4, 2012 - 12:01 am

yup... its a mysql configuration...

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