question on searchplugin-how to search Keywords less 3 chars

[wasabi]

Hello forum,

is there a way to make the search plugin find words and acronyms smaller than 3 characters?


I am using a serendipity blog at work where many people post their documentations with LOTS of acronyms. Searching an acronym with 3 chars, which is quite usual in IT, fails with the following message (in german):
Die Wörter Ihrer Suchanfrage müssen länger als 3 Zeichen sein...

Means more or less in English:

"the words in your search must be longer than 3 characters..."

Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Wasabi/Claudio

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

is there a way to make the search plugin find words and acronyms smaller than 3 characters?

Sadly not easily, because s9y depends on the MySQL fulltextsearch which cannnot operate on words with less than 3 characters unless the MySQL server configuration is changed.

You might be able if you search for "acronym*" to get more hits?

Best regards,
Garvin

[wasabi]

Hello Garvin

....unless the MySQL server configuration is changed

OK, the server configuration HAS changed via "ft_min_word_len=2"
the mysql-server is restarted, the indexes have been rebuilt, even our companie´s Intranet-apache has started over ) but the problem persists

Is there anything else I can do?

Thank you in advance for your answer,
Claudio

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

OK, the server configuration HAS changed via "ft_min_word_len=2"
the mysql-server is restarted, the indexes have been rebuilt, even our companie´s Intranet-apache has started over ) but the problem persists

Is there anything else I can do?

Yes, in fact you MUST patch the file include/genpage.inc.php and search for:

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if (strlen($serendipity['GET']['searchTerm']) <= 3) {

Sadly there is no easy way for a PHP script to fetch ft_min_word_len of the mysql server configuration without doing a lot of performanse intense querying of the full configuration.

HTH,
Garvin

[wasabi]

HTH,
Garvin

Yes indeed, that helped! Now we finally can search for e.g. tcp, udp, ftp, stp, vtp, bgp, etc.

Once again thank you very much for your fantastically fast & professional help!

Kind regards und Grüße nach Köln,
Wasabi/Claudio

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

No problem. Thanks for letting me know it now works! Have fun!

Best regards,
Garvin