[mute]

Ok, so I've done a bit more investigation.

When I have the search.php blurb in that concats the startername_Username or username_Username bits to the search query, the results returned are really wonky.

We limit search results to 500 results. If I have this code running, and search for threads created by myself, I only get 27 results back ranging back about 2 months, as opposed to the full range.

If i search via the command line client, I get many more results:

[root@db2 ~]# search -c sphinx.conf startername_Kyle|grep index
index 'vbpost': query 'startername_Kyle ': returned 1000 matches of 2854 total in 0.005 sec
index 'vbpostarchived': query 'startername_Kyle ': returned 1000 matches of 4882 total in 0.012 sec
index 'vbpostdelta': query 'startername_Kyle ': returned 1 matches of 1 total in 0.000 sec
index 'vbthread': query 'startername_Kyle ': returned 0 matches of 0 total in 0.000 sec
index 'vbthreaddelta': query 'startername_Kyle ': returned 0 matches of 0 total in 0.000 sec

If I comment out the code and let the normal search run, it works as it should. Furthermore, I'm not entirely sure why you are running an additional query rather than just using fetch_userinfo() in the if statement that wraps this code.

Has anyone else run into these issues? I'm going to troubleshoot some more, but so far I'm not able to get this code working as the OP said it should.