Fulltext search help

Question

Hi this might be the wrong place to put this question but i need help as i'm a newbie
What I want to do if create a full search for my users so they can search my database on fishing locations in the UK, I have set up a database with 1 table and 7 columns the columns are named id, country, area, river, beat, desc and img, I want my users to be able to search 4 of these columns (country, area, river, beat)
Basically what I am asking is if a user types in "fishing in (country) or (area) on the (river) at (beat)" or "I would like to fish in (area) on the (river)" and it comes up with results or lists of rivers and beats in that area
I have tried many different ways and nothing seems to work my last effort was with this code
<?php
    if ($c != 1) {
?>
<form action="this.php?c=1">
<input type="text" name="keyword">
<input type="submit" value="Search!">
</form>
<?php
    } else if ($c==1) {
        MySQL_connect("localhoste", "root", "robert");
        MySQL_select_db("fish_db");
        $sql = "
            SELECT *,
                MATCH(tb_country, tb_area, tb_river, tb_beat, tb_desc) AGAINST('$keyword') AS score
                FROM articles
            WHERE MATCH(tb_country, tb_area, tb_river, tb_beat, tb_desc) AGAINST('$keyword')
            ORDER BY score DESC
        $res = MySQL_query($sql);
If anyone could help or point me in the right direction i would be very very greatful
Thanks
Rob

Answer 1

Have you reviewed your full text logs?  This tracks the errors that arise in full text indexing.  You can look for the file location and log files, but checking this page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142495(v=sql.105).aspx
You may have a threading model problem with the multi-threaded Word filter and the single-threaded Adobe PDF filter.  This is discussed here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345185(v=sql.105).aspx
This warns of 'slow' filtering, but I have experienced very large retry counts when in this state.  You have a couple of options.
Alter the threading model for Word to Apartment threading.
Purchase a multi-threaded PDF IFilter, such as the Fox-It IFilter.  (It is not free, but it works well.)
RLF