reading from http://bugs.php.net/source.php?url=/search.php . . . just a suggestion,
if (strlen($search_for)) { $where_clause .= " AND MATCH (email,sdesc,ldesc) AGAINST ('$search_for')"; } should be if (strlen($search_for) > 3 ) { $where_clause .= " AND MATCH (email,sdesc,ldesc) AGAINST ('$search_for')"; } else { $where_clause .= " AND (email LIKE '%$search_for%' OR sdesc LIKE '%$search_for%' OR ldesc LIKE '%$search_for%')"; } then searching for 3 letter goodies like xml will get you somewhere Cameron -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php