Forum searching

[holychicken]

Guys. Searching the forum is really annoying. I hate having to ask everything, but it seems that every common word that you might want to search for is "too common" which is going to lead to those who normally do make use of the search function becoming frustrated and simply asking.

I mean, seriously, BOTTLENECK is too common of a word? Come on.

[loftar]

The forum is actually a stock copy of phpBB that we've skinned and integrated with our login system. Looking deeply enough into their code to fix the problem would probably take quite some time.

[Potjeh]

In the meantime, can we help the situation by avoiding to use these common words? I want an excuse to refer to Bottleneck as "the place that must not be named".

[holychicken]

I was hoping it would be an easy fix along the lines of just setting some threshold variable for what is considered a "too common" word.

Ah well.

[Malicus]

Wait. Are you telling me that these "too common" words are HARDCODED?

Oy.

[Granger]

The forum is actually a stock copy of phpBB that we've skinned and integrated with our login system. Looking deeply enough into their code to fix the problem would probably take quite some time.

Will take about 3 minutes to make search useable.

Read 2nd Post of this thread:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 77&start=0

and either place two slashes into the file mentioned there,
or take some minutes more to change the numeric value to something bigger (8/10 instead of 4/10) and rebuild the search db.

Would really appreciate it, forum search is getting more and more unuseable for topics which are discussed on regular basis.

[loftar]

It appears less obvious how to rebuild the search table, though.

[Jackard]

Wait. Are you telling me that these "too common" words are HARDCODED?

Oy.

Yea its a real pain in the ass common to this type of forum. Most don't know or care to fix it.

[Granger]

It appears less obvious how to rebuild the search table, though.

something like this: http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/ ... -5408.html ?

[sabinati]

It appears less obvious how to rebuild the search table, though.

am i missing something or misunderstanding something? i thought you just have to press the "rebuild search database" button in the admin panel. granted, it's been a while since i adminned a phpbb3 board and/or i could be missing the point entirely...