search system

I have an issue with the search system. You can see the live website at www.padmanstops.com.au

If you search for "bay outlets" it shows search results but yet if you search for "B4" which is a product code included in the title it does not show any results. I have checked a number of the product codes and none of them product a search result.

Any ideas as I need to be able to search by product code.

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Joomla search has a minimum number of characters required.
"B4" is only 2 characters which is too short.
Notice it will not find "bay" either - 3 characters.
It will find "stop" - so 4 characters seems to be the minimum.

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i have already altered the minimum characters to 2 for the joomla search system. If i enable the content search the standard joomla plugin then it will product results for the search system.

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Hmmmm . . . I don't see any minimum characters limitation in the FLEXIcontent Search Plug-in.
So I am not sure where else the limitation could be coming from.

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could this be the cause of the limitation. dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ ... uning.html

looks like it could be a mysql issue

after looking at it further I have narrowed it down to the mysql variable: ft_min_word_len=4

by default it is set to 4 which is the minimum characters a full text in mysql will do.

As the website is on a shared hosting environment this is going to be a pain to change server wide.

Is there any other thoughts on how I can overcome this?