Sphider Help Forum

The default search page for Sphider 2.0 is tabbed. The first tab (Search) is for legacy textual content.The second tab (RSS Search) is for querying RSS feeds, and the third tab (Image Search) is for finding images. For some people, all they need is the legacy textual search. If this is what you need...

There actually seems to be two separate issues here. One is how to create a new template. The other issue is being unable to get any results when searching images. When I hover over a link - I get a 'pop-up' preview of the webpage (rather than just the image). If you are getting a page preview, that...

Some personal stuff going on right now, but I will address the customization of templates probably this weekend. Glad the parse issue is resolved and thank you for reporting it. I TRY to test all scenarios, but there are just so many variations. When someone catches something I didn't, it just makes...

There is indeed a syntax error in spider.php. Edit line 235 to read: echo "Statement failed : ".$error[2]; I will be making the change to the download files asap. This particular section of code should execute ONLY if an SQL statement failed. I would like to see your corresponding log file...

I consider the MySQL version without PDO as the primary version. It is the most directly descended variation of the original by Ando Saabas. It is also the version I personally use. The practical strategy would be to have a single version of Sphider using PDO, as you are correct that PDO is widely a...

Should be very easy with anyone knowledgeable in PHP.

Many of the differences are very subtle within the PDO family. The vanilla vs MySQL DB PDO is more radical as the SQL syntax is very different. The MySQL/SQLite/PostgreSQL differences are more subtle. I did look at OOP (really only one small module is currently OOP), but because of different databas...

Actually, if you look at the code, it already DOES return an array! Each page of results is an array, and the number of elements is user defined, with the default set at 10.

...why you are creating multiple versions. It seems like that would create a lot of extra work, making sure they are 'in sync'. That is a good question. It IS a lot of work trying to keep them in sync! So why do it? L-o-n-g answer: I started out using 1.3.6 of the original Sphider. It served me wel...

It has been discovered that Sphider 1.6 (or any of the earlier versions, for that matter) will not run using PHP7.1. Fatal errors keep popping up all over the place. At first everything seems fine... but then you start using it and at some point it happens... CRASH! Well, the good news is that PHP 7...