Increasing Number of Characters in Search Box in joomla

1. changed line 62-65 in administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php:

Code:

// limit searchword to 20 characters
if ( JString::strlen( $searchword ) > 50 ) {
$searchword    = JString::substr( $searchword, 0, 49 );
$restriction    = true;

I'm using Joomla 1.5 stable and I also didn't find the solution to increase the number of characters in search form. I have done the following: 1. changed line 62-65 in administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php: Code: // limit searchword to 20 characters if ( JString::strlen( $searchword ) > 50 ) { $searchword    = JString::substr( $searchword, 0, 49 ); $restriction    = true; 2. changed line 12 in components/com_search/views/search/tmpl/default_form.php: Code: <input type="text" name="searchword" id="search_searchword" size="30" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $this->escape($this->searchword); ?>" class="inputbox" /> 3. changed line 24 in modules/mod_search/mod_search.php: Code: $width = intval($params->get('width', 50)); Regardless of all the changes I still can't input more than 20 characters in the search form. Any new information on this? In line 6 I had to change Code: $output = '<input name="searchword" id="mod_search_searchword" maxlength="20" alt="'.$button_text.'" to Code: $output = '<input name="searchword" id="mod_search_searchword" maxlength="50" alt="'.$button_text.'" . tweaking 3 characters minimum limit (Joomla 1.5.15): In file joomla/administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php , change to: Line 47 > if (JString::strlen( $aterm ) < 2) { Line 72 > if ( $searchword && JString::strlen( $searchword ) < 2 ) { source: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=472&t=209821