AjaxSearch 1.8.0 available - Thanks for your feedbacks

That’s odd... it’s a built-in PHP function. What version of PHP are you using?

http://www.php.net/mb_strlen

php 5.2.5

[EDIT]: I deleted the cookies after I reinstalled 1.8 and the fatal error went away, but all I get is a blank screen.

even though mb_strlen() is part of PHP I’m still getting that error again - sorry I spoke too soon. Here’s the supposed offending piece of code:


Does anyone see anything wrong with that?

http://support.nusphere.com/viewtopic.php?p=20706

"mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option."

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php

Hi Cbaone,

which is your database charset (utf8 or latin1) ? & your html page chareset ?

If you use latin1 and I use mb_strlen function, it’s an issue (latin1 don’t require muti-byte function).
If you use UTF-8, and you have this kind of issue, as said by Sottwell, check that the mb_string PHP extension is activated on your server.

Ok, guys, got a problem maybe you can solve. Upon returning the search results off an AjaxSearch, I want to test for the existence of a value for a specific TV within my result template. The problem is that if I add the tv table in then all the values are concatenated into the `tv_content` placeholder. That doesn’t do me any good. I don’t need to filter anything based on this TV; I simply need to be able to get to its value within my result template to test for a value.

The TV in question is an external link. So within my result template I planned to do something along the lines of this for the link:



Basically, if the tv_external_url is empty then use the default link, else use the external link. Problem is that I can’t get the placeholder set for this. Thus my dilemma. Rather than spend more hours on this I figure I’d post it up and let someone who really knows the code tell me how to do this.

Thanks in advance!

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

let someone who really knows the code tell me how to do this

I really know the code and it’s not possible with the current 1.8 beta 1 >:(

With the current 1.8 beta 1 the Phx [+as. tv_external_url+] is unknown and not set by AjaxSearch

To do that, I need for each document found, catch the id of TV linked and for each TV id, renders the TV output values as a ajaxSearch TV like [+as.TV_name+]
May be, this new feature could be set with a global new parameter &tvPhx=`1`.
The version 1.8 is now ready and tested (utf8 and latin1), but I could try to solve your request by adding this new feature, if somebody is also interested in.

I’ll probably do it another way by just creating a snippet that passes the ID and do it that way. No biggie. But, yeah, I do think that TV’s should have their own placeholders. Would make the AjaxSearch stuff that much more powerful.

Quote from: sottwell at Jul 19, 2008, 04:16 PM

http://support.nusphere.com/viewtopic.php?p=20706

"mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option."

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php

Thanks, that was it. I had my host activate it and everything is working great.

Regarding making the TV values available as a placeholder, that’d be ideal. Would pair nicely with being able to restrict searching to just a specific TV.