I tried installing this on my test server, but nothing showed up. I tried juggling cache settings, cron, and moving the block around, but still no dice. this is the only block that matches by body text, so i'd like to use it, but if it doesn't show up it doesn't show up I guess...

any way to make it show up?

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deekayen commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

It won't show up if there are no similar entries found and it will only show on node pages. Are you both looking on a node page and have enough content for it to have a decent pool to search from and using MySQL as your database server?

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mattheweigand commented

I am looking at a node page, but I think I may have too much content. There are over 1500 nodes on my site. does it need to look through all of them or something first?

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deekayen commented

1500 nodes is fine. Similar is on sites with many thousands of nodes.

Don't know if I'm going over your head or not... but if you know how to navigate your database (e.g. phpMyAdmin) see if you have a FULLTEXT index named "similar" on your node_revisions table. Whether you do or not, the fill would probably be to try uninstalling it and adding it back to make sure that index is there (otherwise MySQL doesn't have the FULLTEXT engine to match strings to).

Similar also only works on the title and body fields. If you're expecting to match against content in other CCK fields, that's still not supported yet.

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mattheweigand commented

I checked my database with phpMyAdmin, and there is a FULLTEXT index called similar there. I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling the module now.

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mattheweigand commented

Uninstalled the module, checked to see if the FULLTEXT index disappeared, and it did. Reinstalled, fulltext index came back, turned on block and put it in one of my areas in the block interface, but still didn't see anything. Do I need to do fancy mousework with caches and cron jobs by any chance? do I need to run cron 10 times or so ?

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deekayen commented

this might be related to #253299: Anonymous users see same block content in all nodes

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jordojuice commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

This issue has been postponed for over two years and can't be reproduced. Closing it. Please reopen if this issue persists.