Sphider Help Forum

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...

Final resolution.... Sphider 1.6 encodes the full text of a web page prior to storing. This is fine unless the page is ALREADY utf-8 encoded. Encoding to utf-8 text that is already utf-8 produces garbage. For anyone having the same issue with Sphider 1.6, go into sphider.php and comment out line 345...

Search - with "find all words" Confirmed that there is a problem with punctuation marks making words un-findable. The problem is that punctuation marks (apostrophe excluded) are not indexed as a part of the word, but the search has not stripped those marks. Thus, the search fails. Definite...

Okay. I found the reason the phrase "a memorable event in the U.S." returns no results, at least in my setup. During indexing, I have the minimum word length set at 3. "U.S." is 4 characters. So the phrase search is including in in the list of words to look for and not the list o...

I indexed your blog. I did exclude some items, such as "/tag", "/category/", "/author", "/feed", "/page", "/?", and "/wp-json". Anyway, I ended up with 190 pages in the index. I was able to do a search on phrases, although I did f...

I visited your site and search page. What I found is that: 1) Phrase search DOES work, but... 2) It appears the entire blog is not indexed! When I search for phrases in later blogs, I get no results. Searching for phrases in older posts DO return expected results. When I do an AND search using a phr...

I'll look into it. Are you using regular or PDO?

Glad you like it... always looking for ways to improve Sphider.