[Plugin: Sphider for WordPress] Getting PHP version incompatibility errors

didn’t realise sphider was still going.

Have you tried speaking to the plugin developers, and I see Ando is listed as well. There used to be a sphider forum, might be worth asking for help there as well.

Rich:

Thanks for the post. Sphider is still plugging along but i’m not sure about the WP Plugin version. I’ve gone to their ‘official’ site and there’s a forum but really pertaining to the non-wordpress version.

I suppose I could go ahead and post there to see what happens. There’s also a link in the general info section at the WP plugin site that points to their joint developers, Vizion. I might try there as well. Heck, i’ll even email the Prez if I have to.

I’ve used the stand alone version on another site and it fits the bill perfectly. If I can get this WP plugin version to work it would be great. It’s basically an issue about error reporting. If I revert back to PHP 5.2.9 on the server then those errors should disappear. But, of course, that affects everything else on the server as well. In doing some quick research on this there’s a way to turn off the error reporting and the script still functions. Just need to figure that out.

ideally you need to rewrite the php where ereg is used…

I would be hoping that people who use it hang out in their forums, even if they don’t talk about it much.

Problem is I can’t join their ‘Phorum’ which is where the discussion would be for the mods or WP version. There’s no way to register, keeps throwing both a 403 and a 404 error. Quite frustrating to say the least.

So, what i’ve done is contact the person in Estonia who actually created the original Sphider search engine. Let’s see what he does.

Ando used to be good at responding, good luck.

Believe it or not, Ando responded right away.

The fix is easy, need to replaces ereg’s with corresponding preg_matches. This is done in Sphider 1.3.5, you can check how it’s done in there.

Ando