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icon9.gif  Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163240] Tue, 12 October 2010 14:44 Go to next message
tw_nick   United States
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Ok, so just installed FUD and love it. However, after setting up all of my categories and forums, getting an initial few users created, and generating the first few posts, there's a problem.

On SOME searches, the result is a blank page -- no errors on screen or in the activity or error logs. They seem to be tied to one of two select messages in the forums though.

For example:

I search (all forums or just an individual one) for "back office" or just "office" -- a term only contained in a single message in a single forum. Also, I've tried to search entire message or just titles, and both yield same result: an empty browser. And I mean empty! Here's the source code from the results page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Yet, if I search on a term NOT found in one of these troublesome posts, such as "IPv6", I get a proper forum result output.

What gives?? Thanks in advance.

--Nick
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163244 is a reply to message #163240] Tue, 12 October 2010 19:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Sorry, I haven't seen this before.
Please check for errors in your forum's Error Log Viewer as well as the web server's error_log.
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163245 is a reply to message #163244] Tue, 12 October 2010 20:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have checked the error log viewer -- it's empty. I've also re-indexed, but it made no difference. I will check the Apache error logs, as I see it happening more and more frequently now.

Dankie,

--Nick
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163256 is a reply to message #163245] Wed, 13 October 2010 03:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok, the server logs were helpful.

[Mon Oct 11 13:45:24 2010] [error] [client 10.34.33.100] File does not exist: /var/www/vhost/naospeedwagon/forums/adm/style/overlay.png, referer: https://naospeedwagon/forums/adm/index.php?S=&SQ=55c32f11fbfc6c1f34e010 3355925922

This appears NUMEROUS times in the log file. Interestingly enough, that file does not exist...nor does it exist on another installation that I have. Now...how do I fix this??
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163265 is a reply to message #163256] Wed, 13 October 2010 12:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ernesto is currently offline  Ernesto   Sweden
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just grab a blank.png from the net, rename it to overlay.png and place it in the folder if you wanna get rid of the error message - bandaid sollution, but it should work =)

The error you are seeing with the missing file has nothing to do with the search result though.


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Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163266 is a reply to message #163265] Wed, 13 October 2010 14:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There were a couple of other errors that were prevalent in the logs. The first had to do with the twitter field, and I applied the fix referenced elsewhere in the forums. However, there's a call to an undefined function that I'm seeing a lot of as well and it references searches.

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_substr() in /var/www/vhost/naospeedwagon/forums/theme/default/search.php on line 1165, referer: https://naospeedwagon/forums/index.php?&SQ=1dbc1c5ef836af42dd1feb9ec318 ca1e

BTW, grabbed a png from the web so we can band-aid that one error from the logs and will check later. Thks, Ernesto, for the suggestion.

Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163267 is a reply to message #163266] Wed, 13 October 2010 14:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ernesto is currently offline  Ernesto   Sweden
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That sounds like it could be your problem hehe

That is strange though, mb_substr is a builtin PHP function (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-substr.php)

Could you perhaps grab some of the code from your compiled search.php - should be located in WWW_ROOT/theme/THEMENAME/search.php - Search for mb_substr - It should look something like this:

/* Remove stuff in quotes */
	while (preg_match('!<cite>(.*?)</cite><blockquote>(.*?)</blockquote>!is', $body)) {
		$body = preg_replace('!<cite>(.*?)</cite><blockquote>(.*?)</blockquote>!is', '', $body);
	}

	$body = strip_tags($body);
	if (strlen($body) > $GLOBALS['MNAV_MAX_LEN']) {
		$body = mb_substr($body, 0, $GLOBALS['MNAV_MAX_LEN']) . '...';
	}
	return $body;
}


The piece of code its complaining about is located in search_forum_sel.inc.t


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Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163268 is a reply to message #163266] Wed, 13 October 2010 14:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ernesto is currently offline  Ernesto   Sweden
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twnick wrote on Wed, 13 October 2010 16:11
BTW, grabbed a png from the web so we can band-aid that one error from the logs and will check later. Thks, Ernesto, for the suggestion.

I had 18 million entries of missing blank.gif once. That was a nice log


Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163269 is a reply to message #163268] Wed, 13 October 2010 15:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Here's what's in the file:

function trim_body($body)
{
/* remove stuff in old bad quote tags - remove in future release */
while (($p = strpos($body, '<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>')) !== false) {
if (($pos = strpos($body, '<br></td></tr></table>', $p)) === false) {
$pos = strpos($body, '<br /></td></tr></table>', $p);
if ($pos === false) {
break;
}
$e = $pos + strlen('<br /></td></tr></table>');
} else {
$e = $pos + strlen('<br></td></tr></table>');
}
$body = substr($body, 0, $p) . substr($body, $e);
}

/* Remove stuff in quotes */
while (preg_match('!<cite>(.*?)</cite><blockquote>(.*?)</blockquote>!is', $body)) {
$body = preg_replace('!<cite>(.*?)</cite><blockquote>(.*?)</blockquote>!is', '', $body);
}

$body = strip_tags($body);
if (strlen($body) > $GLOBALS['MNAV_MAX_LEN']) {
$body = mb_substr($body, 0, $GLOBALS['MNAV_MAX_LEN']) . '...';
}
return $body;
}

Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163270 is a reply to message #163269] Wed, 13 October 2010 15:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ernesto is currently offline  Ernesto   Sweden
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What is the title of the threads/posts that show up as blank pages? Maybe there is the problem, I dunno.

Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163271 is a reply to message #163270] Wed, 13 October 2010 15:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Here's one -- no obvious issues that I can see, but I'm open to any suggestions....

Category: General
-> Forum: Forum Feature Wish List
- --> Post Title: Back Office
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163272 is a reply to message #163271] Wed, 13 October 2010 17:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Please apply this patch and rebuild your themes to activate it:
http://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/fudforum/?rev=5033&view=rev
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163273 is a reply to message #163272] Wed, 13 October 2010 17:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tw_nick   United States
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Dankie! How do I apply the patch?
Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163275 is a reply to message #163273] Wed, 13 October 2010 17:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ernesto is currently offline  Ernesto   Sweden
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http://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fudforum/trunk/install/forum_dat a/src/search_forum_sel.inc.t?r1=5033&r2=5032&pathrev=5033

In your DATA_ROOT/src/ directory - locate search_forum_sel.inc.t



Re: Search results blank...sometimes?? [message #163276 is a reply to message #163273] Wed, 13 October 2010 17:59 Go to previous message
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FIXED! Thanks for the quick help, folks. I've applied the patch, and it appears to have addressed the issue. However, I will be loading the mb_substr package during my next server maintenance window. I really appreciate the coaching from both of you.

naudefj, I owe you a dinner at Spur! Smile

(ernesto, sorry -- I haven't been to Sweden, so I can't reference any local restuarant chains...)

[Updated on: Wed, 13 October 2010 18:01]

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