Search funcion not working?

soulshine · Post by **soulshine** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:01 pm

Maybe due to me using Firefox? I keep coming up with "zero results" when searching common items like "Penhaligon's"

s~s

corporalgator · Post by **corporalgator** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:23 pm

I think it's a forum bug. I got results searching all, but not when searching specified forums.

dmikel · Post by **dmikel** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:18 pm

I'm getting zero results too and I'm using IE.

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:00 am

I just searched on Proraso and got some hits. Good, OK. Then I searched on Penhaligon and got zero. Oops. Looked again and realized all my Proraso hits came from today only. Maybe a database went bad earlier today and needs to be restored from backup?

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:15 pm

It is being looked into by the powers above.

Big Ren · Post by **Big Ren** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:56 pm

rustyblade wrote:It is being looked into by the powers above.

Post by **ichabod** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:30 pm

rustyblade wrote:It is being looked into by the powers above.

Trumperman · Post by **Trumperman** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:27 pm

Ren & Dominic,

Those last two posts were excellent!

Regards,

Bill

P.S. I'll be the third person to confirm that the highest of powers is looking into this matter.

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:00 pm

I was thinking more along the lines of our chief web guy. That's the server SMF runs off, it probably explains some of the slow response time you may be experiencing. I'm guessing one of the dual 5 1/4" floppy drives is malfunctioning again. Every night the database is backed up onto hardcopy "dot matrix". Don't let his looks fool you, he's badass.

JohnP · Post by **JohnP** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:27 pm

Now that's funny....

John P.

Post by **drmoss_ca** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:14 am

rustyblade wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of our chief web guy. That's the server SMF runs off, it probably explains some of the slow response time you may be experiencing. I'm guessing one of the dual 5 1/4" floppy drives is malfunctioning again. Every night the database is backed up onto hardcopy "dot matrix". Don't let his looks fool you, he's badass.

I see you've taken up smoking again, Richard. I thought your mom said you'd have to move out of the basement if you did that.

Chris

southpaw · Post by **southpaw** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:44 pm

drmoss_ca wrote:I see you've taken up smoking again, Richard. I thought your mom said you'd have to move out of the basement if you did that.

Chris

Post by **VinceFX** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:03 am

Hello everyone,

I've tried fixing the search feature but it seems our webhost is somehow working against me. I tried rebuilding all the search tables and was successful for awhile until the entire set of tables became "corrupt" again for some unknown reason.

Instead of trying the same thing over and banging my head against a wall, I've decided to give google search a try. You will see the google search box on the top left corner of our forum header. It's setup to only search shavemyface.com.

Please give that a try and let me know if this meets expectations. If I get too much negative feedback I will continue to work on fixing the forum search feature.

Vince

Post by **drmoss_ca** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:29 am

Seems to work - you can enter a search term and a username to restrict the answers a little.

I'm quite sure, Vince, that an appeal for donations would enable SMF to move to a faster and more reliable host.

Chris

Post by **VinceFX** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:08 pm

drmoss_ca wrote:Seems to work - you can enter a search term and a username to restrict the answers a little.

I'm quite sure, Vince, that an appeal for donations would enable SMF to move to a faster and more reliable host.

Chris

While I might consider moving the website, I don't plan on asking for donations. I'll do some research on a new webhost when I get a chance. I'll keep you all posted.

Vince