Question

Pulling my hair out, trying to figure out what’s wrong here.

Create table query:

CREATE TABLE search_data (
    id INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
    address VARCHAR( 250 ) NOT NULL ,
    title VARCHAR( 250 ) NOT NULL ,
    time_stamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
    FULLTEXT (title) 
) ENGINE = MYISAM

The query to search code:

$query = " SELECT * FROM search_data WHERE MATCH (title) AGAINST ('feedback')" ;
$result = mysql_query($query, $connection);
confirm_query($result) ;

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) )
{
   echo "FOUND DATA- " . $row['address'] ; 
}

The contents of the table: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ABMgC.jpg
This doesn’t work for some reason(no output). I just can’t figure out why. please help.

Edit:
confirm_query:

function confirm_query($result_set) 
{
    if (!$result_set) 
    {
       die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
    }
}

Edit2: on running the sql query manually: I get “MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows).”
I checked for case sensitivity, but got the same thing

Answer 1

I got hung up the other day on Mysql’s minimum length for searching (defaults to 4 characters.. anything under 4 returns no results). See my post here for more info:
Why doesnt this complex MySQL query work?

Update:
I found that adding the search modifier, “IN BOOLEAN MODE” allowed the query to return results with my test:

SELECT * FROM search_data WHERE MATCH (title) AGAINST ('feedback' IN BOOLEAN MODE);