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I’m getting a PHP error when doing a search as Administrator (not as regular user):

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 0 of 256 bytes
Filename: search/mod.search.php
Line Number: 388
The following errors were encountered
The search path contains an error. Please contact the system administrator.

The error doesn’t show up for regular non-logged in users. Same error shows up using Advanced Search, too.

EE 2.1.2 20101215, PHP 5.2.11

Template Debugging is OFF
Debug Preference set to ‘1’.

Hi, grramps.

See http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/cp/admin/content_admin/channel_edit_preferences.html

Have you set the value of:

Search Results URL

The full URL where you would like search results from this channel to be pointed. The URL should include the Template Group and Template. For example, if you wish that links off the search results page point to your “comments” Template you might use: http://example.com/index.php/channel/comments/

Also, are you still on EE2.1.2, or did you go ahead and upgrade to EE 2.1.3?

Have you set the value of:

Search Results URL

The full URL where you would like search results from this channel to be pointed. The URL should include the Template Group and Template. For example, if you wish that links off the search results page point to your “comments” Template you might use: http://example.com/index.php/channel/comments/

It’s set properly. It worked fine in EE 1.7.x.

Also, are you still on EE2.1.2, or did you go ahead and upgrade to EE 2.1.3?

Updated to 2.1.3. Still get the error. It’s only for Administrator, not regular users. Search functions OK for regular non-logged in users.

grrramps,

Can you share your search tags and your results tags please so we can try and replicate.
Also what your search URL looks like, thank you.

Here’s the error:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 0 of 256 bytes
Filename: search/mod.search.php
Line Number:388
The following errors were encountered
The search path contains an error. Please contact the system administrator.

Here’s the Simple Form tags:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="{site-channel-name}" search_in="everywhere" where="any" results="20" result_page="search/results"}
<label for="keywords"></label>
<input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="36" maxlength="120" />
<input type="submit" id="gobutton" value="Search for App Reviews" class="submit" />
{/exp:search:simple_form}

Here’s the Search Results tag:

{exp:search:search_results switch="resultRowOne|resultRowTwo"}
<tr>
<td class="{switch}" width="26%" valign="top"><strong><a href="http://{auto_path}" title="Link to: {title}">{title}</a></strong></td>
<td class="{switch}" width="50%" valign="top">{excerpt}</td>
<td class="{switch}" width="12%" valign="top">{author}</td>
<td class="{switch}" width="12%" valign="top">{entry_date format="%M %j, %Y"}</td>
</tr>
{/exp:search:search_results}

Here’s the Search Results URL (for each entry):

<a href="http://mysite.com/index.php/mysite/comments/name-of-entry-here">http://mysite.com/index.php/mysite/comments/name-of-entry-here</a>

Here’s the Search Results URL in Channel Preferences:

<a href="http://mysite.com/index.php/mysite/comments/">http://mysite.com/index.php/mysite/comments/</a>

Here’s the URL to the Search Results page:

<a href="http://mysite.com/index.php/search/results/b916a50de915a15aa24be6c3feb6fa6b/">http://mysite.com/index.php/search/results/b916a50de915a15aa24be6c3feb6fa6b/</a>

Does that help?

Again, the error only occurs to logged in SuperAdmin, not to site visitors.

Hi Grrramps,

Thank you for getting that information to us. We are working to figure out what is causing this issue.

Could you please also let us know if and which third-party add-ons you are running?

Also, what custom field types are being used on the channel that is being searched?

Sincerely,

Barry Cogan

Thank you for getting that information to us. We are working to figure out what is causing this issue.

It’s not a deal breaker because it only displays the errors when running as Super Admin.

Could you please also let us know if and which third-party add-ons you are running?

Only Plugins:

Allow EECode, Char Limit, Randomizer, Trunchtml, Word Limit, and TextLinkAds.

Also, what custom field types are being used on the channel that is being searched?

No custom field types. Extra fields were added but all are Textareas.

Sean Smith is having a similar issue with unserialize() [function.unserialize]. We may need to get login details in a bit. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Is this a new install, or an upgrade from 1.x? MSM or not, forum install or not? If either of these, which ones, version wise?

Hi, grramps. Any more news on this? Waiting to hear back from you about if this was a new install, or an upgrade?

I was getting that same PHP error on EE 2.1.3 (which was originally an upgrade from 1.x). I deinstalled the module, then reinstalled it, and it seemed to fix the problem.

Very glad to hear it. So, everybody up and running? Where are you with this, grramps?

We had the same PHP error after upgrading to 2.1.3, and reinstalling the Search module helped.

Thanks: yes, deinstall then reinstall on the Search module corrects this bug’s result.

However, be sure that you Clear Caches also, and refresh the page you are searching from, or other errors will appear as among other things, the action code for search will change.

Reported this as bug so it will get fixed: 15075.

Regards,
Clive

Thanks Erwin and Clive. Have you tried reinstalling the module grrramps?

Cheers

Greg

We keep getting this PHP error and “The search path contains an error”. I have reinstalled the module several times, and initially it seems to have fixed it but then the error comes back anyway. I also get “The action you have requested is invalid.” sometimes. Emptying cache gets rid of this.

Search is terrible since upgrading to 2.1.3.