Problem with iPhone

Hypocrite

I am running the latest version of Vanilla Forms (2.0.18.4) on a Windows host.

One of our users reported a problem with iPhone.

The discussion forum is giving the following error:
Smarty error: the $compile_dir 'C:\wwwroot\keskustelut/cache/Smarty/compile' does not exist, or is not a directory.

This error is not visible in any other browser. Anything I could do about this?

vrijvlinder

@UnderDog This must be made into announcement it comes up once a week !!

@Hypocrite :

One clue is the does not exist part, usually when it does not exist one must create it.(kind of like making a baby)

Make a New Folder called Smarty, then another inside it called compile, then put them in the cache folder of your installation.

If you enter your query in the search bar like this :

does not exist, or is not a directory.

you surprisingly get this :

http://vanillaforums.org/search?Search=does+not+exist,+or+is+not+a+directory.

Hypocrite

Thank you. Will try that.

I think you might need to improve your search on this forum. I tried to search with the term "Smarty error: the $compile_dir", but it does not return any results.

vrijvlinder

some would say the error lies in the format of the query ,as the sample I provided demonstrates , let us know how it went

x00

@Hypocrite

Ah that is a good question

Smarty error: the compile_dir

will work

$ has special meaning in sphinx.

you can also do

Smarty error: the \$compile_dir

To escape. Though the highlighter does not kick in properly in the results.

Kasper

I usually just use Google:

Smarty error: the $compile_dir site:vanillaforums.org

422

i dont even bother with the search, its absolute pants

x00

@422 said:
i dont even bother with the search, its absolute pants

It isn't it is powerful, but not so intuitive, and sometime the deamon goes down.

the default mysql full text search is pants.

422

search "shoud" be intuitive tho, it shouldn necessitate a whole plethora of secret commands

x00

I think that is the difference between a engine an it implementation. These command are not secret, but are for vast array of applications, it is possible to implement as a simple search or pre-parse as per you requirements. the more advanced you search the more you will need an advanced syntax, and you would understand why.

Some thing are worth knowing however

in google if you type word - notword the results will exclude notword this is the same here

try searching

problem -iphone

excludes iphone

vs.

problem iphone

and/or

vs.

"problem+with+iphone"

exact match

vs.

^problem

search at the beginning of the fields only (name, and body text)

iphone$

_fields ends in iphone only (excluding punctuation) _

^problem with iphone$

must match the whole field

blue|red

blue or red

blue&red

field must contain blue and red

@(name) tree

only search the name field (title)

@(body) tree

only search the body field

more info
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/1.10/extended-syntax.html

vrijvlinder

@kasperisager said: I usually just use Google:

so true and the same results are shown too !