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We’ve just set up a forum and are having problems. We’re using the code in the “shares” template. When we search in the public area of the forum, we get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method DB::escape_like_str() in /www/eh12345/public_html/admin/modules/forum/mod.forum_core.php on line 10209

We are running EE version 1.6.7 and Forum version 2.1.1 on Engine Hosting. I think they set up EE for us, and we just installed the forums per the instructions.

Help! I’m not really able to puzzle my way out of this one. We’ve not been able to get this working yet…

Raymond:

Let’s see if we can rule out file corruption.  Can you please try to refresh your forum module and language files and try again?

-greg

Hi Greg. I grabbed the forum download again, unzipped, uploaded the files again as per the instructions. The file sizes seemed to be the same and so on. Tried the search again, got the same error message.

okay.  What extensions are you running?

Hi,

I just installed the forums module for the first time on a website I made for a client, and have the same error.

In mod.forum_core.php, line 10209:

      $keywords_like = $DB->escape_like_str(trim($keywords));

On my installation, in system/db.mysql.php, there aren’t any occurence of “_like_”.

I verified in the ExpressionEngine1.6.7.zip I grabbed when it was released, and it’s also missing from there.

I just grabbed (like 2 minutes ago) a new ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 zip file from My Downloads, and it’s in it.

So my guess is that there was two different releases of 1.6.7, and the first one is missing that method in the DB object.

In fact, a lot of things have changed between the two releases beside the addition of escape_like_str().

Here’s a piece of a diff I ran between the two releases:

// ----------------------------------------------
 //  Set base system constants
 // ----------------------------------------------

     define('APP_NAME'  , 'ExpressionEngine');
-    define('APP_BUILD' , '20090122');
+    define('APP_BUILD' , '20090320');
     define('CONFIG_FILE',  $config_file);
     define('PATH_CACHE'  , $system_path.'cache/');
     define('PATH_LANG' , $system_path.'language/');

So, Raymond, you must be running an older build of EE 1.6.7, just like I was.

Yes, definitely make sure to run the most current builds of both the forum module and EE proper. Let us know if that helps.

Running EE as of August 2008. Version 1.6.7 updated a few weeks ago and going smoothly.

I just purchased the Forums module yesterday.  Loaded it up and everything works fine except… Got the same error these folks are talking about:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method DB::escape_like_str() in /www/[myuserdir]/public_html/[system]/modules/forum/mod.forum_core.php on line 10209

when I click any of these links: View New Posts - View Today’s Active Topics - View Pending Posts

I will try the solution that worked above but EE 1.6.7 has been running without a complaint for a few weeks now.

-Rob

OK just updated to the “Silent 1.6.7” upgrade build and the links seem to be working. 

Waste of an hour… not a happy camper now. 

If there are upgrades/builds to EE that break the current shipping version of the Forums, shouldn’t that be noted in the Forums installation instructions?  My 1.6.7 install appeared to me to be current.  Installer beware…

I think they should either add a number after the 7 (1.6.7.1) or add the build in the zip filename.

And they should publicize the update itself.

Downloading a zip file and checking inside to see if there was an update isn’t the most efficient thing!

Sorry that you had such difficulty here; as a note, build updates are allows announced in the build update forums

Lisa - thank you.  Now I know better… but if you consider my case and see other posts that ran into exactly the same problem then maybe there is something here.  Maybe there should be a note in the Forum installation guide (or any installation) to check the build update page and make sure everything is using the current build.  One of the things I love about EE compared to other tools I have used is your fantastic attention to details like this. 

I like the indicator in the EE control panel that tell me there is a new update out there without having to check a forum page—but in this case it failed (or gave me a false sense of security) since I did not know there was a new build out there.

The forums made it very easy to find the fix but if the Control Panel “indicator light” was tuned to the builds and not just the “hundredths” updates then I would have looked for a later build. 

On a positive note, I probably would have floundered for a much longer time using another tool!  Thanks everyone for your help.

I too was counting on “EllisLab News Feed” (shown by default in the CP).

I subscribed to the build update forum’s RSS.

Thanks Lisa. I should have checked the forums by myself, but was too lazy.

(I still think it would be more obvious if the zip name changed with the builds 😊

Thank you for your feedback!  What I would like to ask you to do is to repost your story as a Feature Request, that will ensure it is recorded and out there.

Thank you and if anything else comes up, please do not hesitate to post a new thread.