Search not working after upgrade to vBulletin 4.2.2 Patch Level 4

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Originally Posted by MrEyes

Nope, I haven't touched anything like that. Cant speak for what the official VB patches will have done.

Hmm, okay. Sadly, I'm at a loss. So no idea at all what may have led to your search functionality problem? Did anything that might be significant happen before you noticed it failing? Have you considered restoring the database to a point from before you noticed the search function was broken?

Originally Posted by MrEyes

For the sake of completeness, over on vb.com it was suggested that the following should be added to the config.php

PHP Code:

define('SKIP_DS_ERRORS', true); 


I already had that line in my config.php. My changelog shows this as being there for over a year now (it was added to prevent some PHP error displaying after an upgrade)

Yeah, I've seen that before. They tend to gravitate toward not addressing actual causes for errors, but rather hiding them. And another favorite fix of theirs seems to be telling people to re-upload all of their source files to the hosting server. I suppose that can fix things sometimes... but still