Comments on: Contextual Related Posts in WordPress

By: uncleboob

uncleboob — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:55:58 +0000

Here are some changes I made to the related_upgrade.php
—-
/* Don’t remove this line. */
require(’wp-config.php’);

global $table_prefix;

$connexion = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD) or die(”Can’t connect to the database”.mysql_error());
$dbconnexion = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connexion);

if (!$dbconnexion) {
echo mysql_error();
die();
}

$sql = “ALTER TABLE “.$table_prefix.”posts ADD FULLTEXT(post_content,post_title)”;
$result = mysql_query($sql);

if ($result)
echo “Alter table successful, please proceed with instructions”;

else
echo “Something is amiss, please check instructions again.”;
—
This one will work with Wordpress 2.6.3 and hopefully above.

Greetings

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:08:29 +0000

Is there an updated version of this plugin? I’m running WP version 2.5.1

By: Web Development

Web Development — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:27:25 +0000

Even i’m getting the fatal error thing!!
So i’m using the other related posts plugin now!
Can anyone help me fixing this?

By: muhibbuddin

muhibbuddin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:20:36 +0000

i got fatal error . bla bla bla. but i unsintall it. and my blog was clean now

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By: MauiDan

MauiDan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:22:52 +0000

I’ve fixed the problem by altering the table type to MYISAM. Here is the complete code to do this:

/* Don't remove this line. */ require('wp-config.php');


global $table_prefix;
$connexion = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD) or die("Can’t connect to the database".mysql_error());
$dbconnexion = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connexion);
if (!$dbconnexion) {

	echo mysql_error();

	die();

}
$sql = "ALTER TABLE ".$table_prefix."posts ENGINE = MYISAM";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
if ($result) {

	echo "Alter table type successful...";
} else {

	echo mysql_error();

	}
$sql = "ALTER TABLE ".$table_prefix."posts ADD FULLTEXT(post_content,post_title)";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
if ($result) {

	echo "Alter table index successful, please proceed with instructions";

} else {

	echo mysql_error();

}

By: MauiDan

MauiDan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:13:19 +0000

Using echo mysql_error(); I was able to see the “something is amiss” error is:

Something is amiss, please check instructions again. The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes

Any ideas?

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Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:34:15 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:13:40 +0000

thanks. I think I’ll just use the widget you use… it looks pretty easy. Doclix has a similar thing… it links certain relevant words on your page. I use it, it is cool. You or anyone who reads this post who blogs should check it out.

By: Megos

Megos — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:11:47 +0000

Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in //wp-content/themes/smashingtheme/index.php on line 32

Anybody fixed this?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:30:43 +0000

Hi, I followed your directions in comment 44 and now I’m getting the “No Database Selected” error like Ryan in comment 46.

Can you help me?

Thanks!

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By: Sherif Elsisi

Sherif Elsisi — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:59:42 +0000

Hi
I am getting hi, im getting this error:
Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given …
A couple people already wrote about it. Could it be bcs of the version number ?
Thanks for the plugin.

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By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:17:55 +0000

This plugin failed, tried everything i knew.

Followed your instructions.

It didn’t work.

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By: Ryan Ward

Ryan Ward — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:42:43 +0000

Actually, I changed the quotes and now it says “No Database Selected”.

I then added DB_NAME and then I got another error and have removed it back to what your change was and it says “No database Selected”

Any other suggestions…

By: Ryan Ward

Ryan Ward — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:12:28 +0000

Mark,

Thank you, it helped, but, now I am getting this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /homepages/8/d196824117/htdocs/wordpress-testblog/related_upgrade.php on line 7

This is all prior to activating the plugin, correct?

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:01:51 +0000

Ryan:
In related_upgrade.php, Change
$connexion = mysql_connect($server,$loginsql,$passsql) or die(”Can’t connect to the database
“.mysql_error());
To
$connexion = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD) or die(”Can’t connect to the database
“.mysql_error());

Hope that helps

By: Ryan Ward

Ryan Ward — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:42:10 +0000

I’m getting this error:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in /homepages/8/d196824117/htdocs/wordpress-testblog/related_upgrade.php on line 7
Can’t connect to the database

Any fix for this?

Thanks,