Comments on: AZIndex 0.7.1 Released:Adds Support for National Languages

By: Asaf Sagi

Asaf Sagi — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:09:01 +0000

Hey Mike.
I am running a web dictionary for slang in Hebrew, and I am looking into your plugin, I want to use it in my dictionary.
I see you need some help sorting problems in Hebrew and Arabic. I want to help you get through those problems (and in return, the working index feature will boost my site’s functionality).
Contact me, okay?
msdnpimp@gmail.com

Yours,
Asaf.

By: English Mike

English Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:18:43 +0000

Please do — and please let me know if it fixes your problem!

Thanks,

By: Heather B

Heather B — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:14:11 +0000

opps I just saw this comment, let me upgrade and check it out. sorry Mike

By: English Mike

English Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:07 +0000

I have found and fixed the problem some of you were having regarding the missing database table. It was something I added to the database definition that would prevent it from being created if your installation is using a very old version of the MySQL database (MySQL v4.0 or older).

I have created a new version of AZIndex (0.7.2) with the fix. Unfortunately, those of you who installed and activated AZIndex 0.7.1 will have lost their index definitions, so unless you have a recent backup of your database, I’m afraid you’re going to have to create the indexes again.

By: English Mike

English Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:16:23 +0000

Please see my comments just above. Sorry that you are having problems, but I need to know a little more about your circumstances before I can be of much help. I’m not seeing the same issues when I upgrade my blogs. All I can suggest is you try reinstalling 0.6.3 (see above) to see if that gets you up and running again.

By: English Mike

English Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:14:15 +0000

Another suggestion. You can try reverting back to AZIndex 0.6.3 (download from here: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/azindex.0.6.3.zip) to see if that solves your problem. If it does then the problem is AZIndex somehow, if it doesn’t then something else is.

Unless you really need the new national language support, you do not need 0.7.1.

If you do this, please tell me what happens.

By: English Mike

English Mike — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:01:29 +0000

Ugh! Do you know if you are running on a multi-user version of WordPress? From the look of the prefix — “wp_m5vfan_” — it looks as though you might be (maybe on wordpress.com?).

If you know how, could you run phpmyadmin on your server, go to your WordPress database and find out if there is any database table in it called something like wp_az_indexes. I suspect the table is still there, but something in your WordPress server configuration has changed recently (maybe a software upgrade?) that is causing the plugin not to find the database table. The strange thing is, that in the case where the table is not found, deactivating and reactivating the plugin should, at least, create a new database table for you.

The code for detecting the AZIndex database table has not changed in months, and is a very simple one line check that has never failed during previous upgrades, which is why I suspect it’s something to do with your configuration. (I just upgraded to 0.7.1 on this blog and everything is fine). I will dig around a little to see if others are having similar problems with other plugins, but without more info, I’m a bit stuck as to what the problem might be.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:08:15 +0000

I have the same problem

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:39:40 +0000

I have just updated and upon activation I get the following error in wordpress:

“AZINDEX_PLUGIN_ERROR: The required AZIndex database table – wp_m5vfan_az_indexes – does not exist. Please deactivate then re-activate the AZIndex plugin to correct the problem.”

I did as instructed and nothing happened… so the plugin no longer works…