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[carlinhosg]

Whenever I do a search and try to click on the next page to see more results I get to a page that says "No topics or posts met your search criteria", even though the serach result returned over 10000 finds.

Can anyone help?

 

[starl]

Check out this post:
http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=133808

 

[Von Pookie]

No Trace, this is something different that (as far as I know) has nothing to do with the highlighting issue. This particular glitch has been around pretty much forever with the php board.

Unfortunately, I don't know why this happens or how to fix it. I'm assuming if there is a way, it would require messing with the board code.

 

[starl]

.. on other sites whenever I ran into the issue, it had to do with a too tight firewall...cookies disabled, no referrer, etc....

 

[carlinhosg]

The problem is with Mozilla. When I try with IE it works fine.

Thanks for the replies

 

[starl]

I use Firefox v1.0.3 and am able to access the 2nd page of a search and bring up a topic from that page...

 

[Von Pookie]

It has nothing to do with Mozilla/FireFox, IE or any other browser (though for the record, I have received the error using both IE and Firefox before). It's simply the board software. I've even had it happen to me on the official phpbb support boards while searching there.

However, I did find this while doing some brief searching there yesterday. There are a TON of people who have posted there asking about the same issue, although I couldn't really find anything about an actual "fix":

There is no easy fix to the problem.

I'll explain:

When you search, phpBB caches the search results to make it quicker to retrieve the next page when you want it.

This cached data is stored in the database, and there is a finite limit to the amount which can be stored. If it is too big, the cache simply doesn't get stored and you have the problem which you have seen.

One possible way to get results from another page is to add &start=number to the URL

eg http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/search.php?search_keywords=group management&start=50

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1139807#1139807