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Posted: Dec 29 2024 01:57 am

When I click on my profile, then "Find all posts by Cameron", when I try to look at my posts past the first page, I repeatedly get an error message "No topics or posts met your search criteria." For some reason this also happens when I try to search through everyone else's posts as well. Any ideas on how to fix this? Was really hoping to read some of my old forum posts.

Posted: Dec 29 2024 10:40 am

Hey mang, you can work around it with with some URL fiddling.

https://www.sydlexia.com/forums/search.php?search_author=Cameron
...is the successful first page (after I click your profile, then "Find all posts by Cameron").

https://www.sydlexia.com/forums/search.php?search_id=1085265506&start=25
...is the unsuccessful second page if I click Page 2. Its automatic change from search_author to search_id seems the culprit.

https://www.sydlexia.com/forums/search.php?search_author=Cameron&start=25
...is the successful second page if the URL is modified to keep search_author.

https://www.sydlexia.com/forums/search.php?search_author=Cameron&start=50
...is the successful third page if the URL start value is incremented by 25 (and so on).

Unfortunately I see no obvious way to list more than 25 posts per page (and this may be intentionally hard-coded to prevent certain abuses).

Similar fiddling also works for the main Search function, where the URL must keep mode=results (to, again, overcome the automatic change to search_id).

Posted: Dec 30 2024 04:57 pm

Thank ya! That fiddling works swimmingly. Smile

Posted: Jan 19 2025 09:00 pm

I've noticed similar issues. I've been meaning to ask on PHPbb 2.0 legacy forums to try and get a coding fix.

Basically, any problems you see on the forums exist because these forums were designed to work with an older version of PHP that my web host has upgraded away from. Multiple times, I have had to apply code fixes to the forums to get them working with newer versions of PHP. I currently pay $5/month to use a legacy version of PHP, but eventually I'll be forced to upgrade and the forums will need to be fixed again.

The only other solution would be to pay for my own server and then I could run whatever version of PHP I wanted in perpetuity.

Well, that's not entirely true. I could also dump the mySQL database and pay someone to integrate it into new software with a similar aesthetic.

I don't have money for either of these options.