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HypocriteHypocrite New
in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

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?

Comments

  • vrijvlindervrijvlinder MVP
    edited March 2013

    @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.

  • HypocriteHypocrite New

    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.

  • vrijvlindervrijvlinder MVP
    edited March 2013

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

  • x00x00 MVP
    edited March 2013

    @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.

  • KasperKasper Vanilla Staff

    I usually just use Google:

    Smarty error: the $compile_dir site:vanillaforums.org
  • 422422 MVP

    i dont even bother with the search, its absolute pants

  • x00x00 MVP

    @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.

  • 422422 MVP

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

  • x00x00 MVP

    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

  • vrijvlindervrijvlinder MVP
    edited March 2013

    @kasperisager said: I usually just use Google:

    so true and the same results are shown too !

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