# FULLTEXT Search problem!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fulltext-search-problem/210505
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 19, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fulltext-search-problem/210505 "2006-12-19T15:06:51Z")
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### Author: ![The\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@The\_Stranger](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Stranger)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fulltext-search-problem/210505/1 "2006-12-19T15:06:51Z")

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Hi guys!  
I have a common problem and I have almost give up trying to solve it… anyway here it is:  
I’m building a fulltext search feature and everything it’s fine. The problem it’s that I want to be able to search using 3-lettered words instead of the default 4 set in ‘ft\_min\_word\_len’.

Locally I can change everything in MySQL but in the server it’s a different story, I only have access to phpMyAdmin and stuff like that. This server it’s hosting many different projects, it won’t let me restart the server or changing a configuration file.

Any idea? a workaround for this problem?