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My website features both articles and references to different code elements for my students. For instance, I have individual pages for the

<h1>

tag. However, when I use the search functionality to search for something like <h1> I receive an error stating that the entry must be at least 3 characters long. Is there away of modifying the parameters to accept the < and > characters or to shorten the required search length?

My code as of right now is only as follows:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="news|pages" search_in="everywhere" no_result_page="search/no_results"}

Thanks for any input or suggestions

HI NGiannini,

There is nothing that can be done officially.

What I am about to suggest is not recommended as it involves modifying expression engine files and will need to be re applied with any future updates.

You can edit the system/expressionengine/modules/search/mod.search.php file.

Lines 28-36 should look like this:

class Search {

    var    $min_length        = 3;            // Minimum length of search keywords
    var    $cache_expire    = 2;            // How many hours should we keep search caches?
    var    $keywords        = "";
    var    $text_format    = 'xhtml';        // Excerpt text formatting
    var    $html_format    = 'all';        // Excerpt html formatting
    var    $auto_links        = 'y';            // Excerpt auto-linking: y/n
    var    $allow_img_url    = 'n';            // Excerpt - allow images:  y/n
    var    $channel_array     = array();
    var    $cat_array      = array();
    var $fields            = array();
    var $num_rows        = 0;

Code: system/expressionengine/modules/search/mod.search.php

We are going to reduce the $min_length by one

class Search {

    var    $min_length        = 2;            // Minimum length of search keywords. Default length: 3

Save your changed mod.search.php and you should be good to go!

Remember: any time you update Expression engine you will need to re-apply this change!

When I get a moment I will look into allowing < and > for you as well.

Best regards,
Barry

Thanks Barry I’ll give it a shot! If worse comes to worse the full element names will be fine for them to use.

Let me know if it works out for you 😊