Spriggan Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I've got a small problem. I'm using a fulltext boolean search for a site that's hosted, so I don't have access to the server so I can't change the settings manually, and I need a way to get around the minimum indexed size restriction that's the default for MySQL. This is for an author's website and some of his character's names are only 3 letters long and people don't get any results when they search for those characters, so I don't need to circumvent the restriction for all cases only ones we want to. I realize I could use a LIKE comparison, which I do use when searching page/article/blog titles, but I needed a way to rank results--plus the articles are fairly long too--so using LIKE for everything wouldn't work for what we wanted. I'm using MySQL 4.1 (though I could upgrade to 5.0) at the moment. Any ideas or am I out of luck? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/84652-fulltext-search-getting-around-minimum-indexed-size/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 You're stuck, unless you use a third-party solution or make your own index... you could ways check the keyword length and decide how to query as a workaround. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/84652-fulltext-search-getting-around-minimum-indexed-size/#findComment-431488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spriggan Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Thanks for the reply fenway. Well since I have a list of words that need to be looked for I can add to the query that if one of those words pops up to do something different, add a LIKE or something, I was just hoping for something less messy--and a little easier. Making my own index does peak my curiosity though, it might not be practical for what I need but it would still be interesting to read about, do you have any links or anything that would point me in the right direction for learning more? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/84652-fulltext-search-getting-around-minimum-indexed-size/#findComment-431673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Not a link per se, although I'm sure there are some... just that you can make your own column full of relevant keywords, and search that... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/84652-fulltext-search-getting-around-minimum-indexed-size/#findComment-432105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spriggan Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 I see. That might not be a bad idea since I could easily create one at the time content is submitted and before it gets placed in the database. Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/84652-fulltext-search-getting-around-minimum-indexed-size/#findComment-432223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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