Search Function?

[The Lemon Merchant]

Is anyone else having trouble searching the forums? Whenever I use it I'm just dumped to a white screen.

 

[hong]

I just did a search for occurrences of the word "hong" in the last week, and got 38 hits. This tells me two things:

1) The search function is working fine, or at least it was a minute ago.

2) Not enough people are talking about me.

Everybody, please talk about me!

 

[eabha]

You might want to take a look here for more on this problem.

 

[Piratecat]

Basically, it seems like search works perfectly if you use it on one word, sporadically if you use it on two, and seldom if you try three or more. We haven't figured out how to fix that yet.

 

[DethStryke]

So far, I have noticed that about 30% of the time the searches work. At this particular moment, neither an advanced or basic search works. I have tried one, two, & three word searches, with and without quotes, and with output for threads and titles only. These all have dumped me out into a white screen auto-generated by the PHP.

From what is happening, my first reaction is that there is probably a link to something in the search programming that no longer exists in the file/link hierarchy of the site. This is probably giving a null value and dumping a basic page out because it doesn't know what to do with the value given.

But that's a quick reply without looking at the code or having any kind of troubleshooting tools. So I don't recommend taking it as absolute gospel.

I have done programming with a few scripting & full-blown programming languages (Basic, C#, javascript, PHP & CSS), so I'm not completely out of my league.

 

[BSF]

I haven't been able to get any searches work today at all.

I am sure it will get straightened out, but it is odd that I was able to search yesterday with partial success, but no success today.

 

[BSF]

Looking at it a bit more and I think that perhaps certain words are problematic. As an example, no matter how I search for Alsih2o's History threads, if I include the word "history" in the search parameters, I end up with a blank page. If I don't, then I can find plenty of posts.

Any chance there is a problem with an index that needs to be rebuilt?

 

[Michael Morris]

Possibly, but rebuilding the index would take the old server upwards of 12 hours. I'd expect to see at least 4 hours downtime here.

 

[andargor]

Hi,

Any progress on fixing the search function? I'm kinda getting tired of seeing blank white pages, even with short words like "epic"...

Andargor

 

[andargor]

I just did a search for occurrences of the word "hong" in the last week, and got 38 hits. This tells me two things:

1) The search function is working fine, or at least it was a minute ago.

2) Not enough people are talking about me.

Everybody, please talk about me!

I forgot... Hong "why aren't people talking about me" Ooi.



Andargor