By mallet on

Hi all

I am trying to get my search function to work on drupal 6 using the views 6.x-2.1 module. But every time I try to press the expose button to create a custom search in my filters I keep getting this error message:
an error occurred at: admin/build/views/ajax/config-item/content_search/default/default/filter/sid

I asked my free hosting company if they can help me and they said:
"drupal searching will not work n a free account due to the need to create temporary tables (which we do not allow on the free hosting)"

is this true? and have other people got this message before with a free host? whats the likely hood this will be cured if I get a paid host?

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styro commented

You just need a plan (free or not) that lets you create temporary tables.

Some paid hosts still don't let you use temp tables, and I guess maybe some free ones just might let you. It's up to the provider, although generally the more you pay the more generous the host is with features.

Temp tables used to be a core requirement of Drupal before version 6, but as you've found out some Drupal 6 contrib modules might still require temporary tables.

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Anton

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mallet commented

thanks styro.
I pop some more questions to some service providers. I did ask godaddy.com some questions about this and they said they can do it. I will definitely get a paid host once I get the foundations of all my modules right and working. I will probably do a short test and get just a small host pack just to get things running.
Thanks again, much appericated.