Re-Index tool doesnt reindex anything

You have to see something like this

Please turn on error reporting and see what you get.

The index tool becomes now even more important with the introduction of the "Finder" or "Smart search" plugin.

It really needs a refactoring to be used with medium or bigger data sets.

Please turn on error reporting and see what you get.

turned error_reporting to max

no relevant errors on page or in server or php logs.

no js console errors

I am running php 5.4.16 via zend server on a dedicated localhost server running fedora

I also use fedora as my desktop, but tried with 3 diff browsers so I think most unlikely its that.

I dont have a win machine here today but maybe I can try with a win machine tomorrow.

Re-index never has worked for me in 2 or 3 months I used cobalt.

I just installed a trial of J3.2-beta and it doesnt work on that either.

strange ?

re larger data sets and finder:

a cli (or some cron-able) option would also be helpful

I tried CLI but half of Joomla API does not work there. It is very hard to create script there.

I tried CLI but half of Joomla API does not work there. It is very hard to create script there.

I think it fair to say that not all of the of the api is required to run a job which basically is only going to manipulate the database.

And in my own experience at least the half which does database work is perfectly useable.

But anyway

And about the overall problem with re-index:

My localhost dev server run PHP 5.4 under Zend Server

I just tried a test site on a server with PHP 5.3 and it works fine

So maybe its a php 5.4 problem? But as I said I dont see any errors?

I will try and run it thru debugger if I get a minute later on

What is your PHP 5.4 error reporting parameters? Those like startup_errors for example.

OK I found it.

It is a PHP 5.4 thing - call-time pass by reference has been deprecated a long time and has now been dropped in 5.4

But you still have c-t-p-b-r in admin/components/com_cobalt/models/tools.php

In getToolForm the call to the event dispatcher call to onToolGetForm is like this:

    public function getToolForm()

    {

        ...

        $dispatcher->trigger( 'onToolGetForm', array('com_cobalt.tools', &$form, $name, $id));

but because call-time pass by ref doesnt work anymore, when event dispatcher returns the $form variable is still empty string

If change fucntion def onToolGetForm in the toolset plugin and make $form by-ref it will fix this issue

    public function onToolGetForm($context, &$form, $name, $id)

    {

But I dont know what it might break.

And maybe its better to use return $result; from dispatcher?

anyway the fix is up to you, but thats the reason.

(I dont know why I wasnt seeing any error at all for this.

It was just dropped silently which seems wrong. Maybe thats a php bug?)

Good. Fix applied. It should not break anything.