Search returns no results for three letter terms

[cday]

When searching the forum for posts containing a three character term such as skf or dxf or jp2 no results are returned...

[DOS386]

When searching the forum for posts containing a three character term such as skf or dxf or jp2 no results are returned...

Known problem of PHPBB forum software.

[XnTriq]

[quote="XnTriq (Re: Scanning "film negative" and convert to "positive"?)"]Out of frustration with phpBB I created an OpenSearch plugin for web browsers.[/quote]
… and an alternative method for IE-based browsers.

• Re: New forum software (phpBB 3.0) Search snag…
• Nag-threshold that XnTriq mentioned?

[XnTriq]

... searching for the letters "PDF" returns zero results in this forum

For some reason the phpBB format doesn't return results for three-character strings, which is particularly unfortunate for computing topics where file formats are usually three-characters...

This is due to a limitation in MySQL. The forum's search backend has now been switched from Fulltext mysql to Fulltext native, and the search index has been updated.

Test: Forum search for keyword “pdf”

• phpBB.com
  • Bug tracker: Fulltext mysql search excludes 3 letter words; native includes them
  • Searching 3-letter words
  • Searching for 3 letter words?
• newsgroup.XnView.com
  • Forum search function bug?

[cday]

... searching for the letters "PDF" returns zero results in this forum

For some reason the phpBB format doesn't return results for three-character strings, which is particularly unfortunate for computing topics where file formats are usually three-characters...

This is due to a limitation in MySQL. The forum's search backend has now been switched from Fulltext mysql to Fulltext native, and the search index has been updated.

Thanks, that should be very useful...

The Forum search facility now supports searches for three-character terms...