MySQL FULLTEXT not working

Question

I\'m attempting to add searching support for my PHP web app using MySQL\'s FULLTEXT indexes.

I created a test table (using the MyISAM type, with a single text field

Answer 1

Add more data. By default MySQL will ignore any word that is in 50% or more of the rows in the table as it considers it would be a 'noise' word.

With very few rows in a table, it is common to hit this 50% limit often (ie. if you have two rows, every word is in at least 50% of the rows!).