diff --git a/inc/html.php b/inc/html.php
index 2897d01c15e3f07bb99df75f3a279b57e773b90b..1454edbf82b0df985ac29239d3e5d0ac8225c3d9 100644
--- a/inc/html.php
+++ b/inc/html.php
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ function html_search(){
     flush();
 
     //do fulltext search
+    $regex = array();
     $data = ft_pageSearch($QUERY,$regex);
     if(count($data)){
         print '<dl class="search_results">';