Search This Site!
This is a great site search — it uses a temporary MySQL table to cache data, so
it’s fast, it automatically updates when appropriate, so it stays
accurate. It’s only downside that I see is that, by default, it has a minimum word
length of 4 characters, so, for instance, searching for "php" would find no
hits! Sheesh!
It’s actually a "feature" of MySQL, though:
"By
default, MySQL creates full-text indexes from 4 letters words. If you
want to change these settings, to say – 3 letters, just set
ft_min_word_len=3 then restart the MySQL server and rebuild your
indexes (MX Site Search should already do this automatically from time
to time). This is supported only for MySQL 4.0 higher."
Too often, hosts don’t provide enough control over the server to make features like this useful, but MeWebHost.com is great! While I was not able to make this adjustment myself, they were very helpful, and did it for me!
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