Sphider 1.3.4 install.php bug fix

[darknkreepy3#]

So, there's a simple fix for all of you trying to install and run the sphider search engine version 1.3.4 onto a windows server with apache and php with mysql.

old lines of code

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<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
...
?>

this will throw errors and make the php compiler by default not see the php code unfortunately. repair it simply by adding 'php' after the '?'...

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<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
...
?>

It tore at me for hours, wondering, is it the shared server? Did I not make the proper rights, GRANT ALL didn't work? No, simply, the code was being spit out as messed up HTML because the start tag didn't have 'php'. I remember shorthand for php used to be:

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<?
...
?>

but that doesn't work. There aren't any other bugs in the search engine I could find. It is great by the way, and I have created a flash module to work along with it. I use "GET" and the LOADVARS send type. Remember to send search=1 as one of the variables in your LoadVars object in actionscript 2, or again it won't do a search. It needs both variables.

Flash actionscript 2.0 sphider loadvars partial example



Voila.