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dyc3r
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Thank you. I’m still a little wet behind the ears with PHP, and I was not aware of var_dump().
That helped me solve the problem. The error actually occurred in the fourOHfourSearch() before the query ran:
$search_term = trim(preg_replace ( "'http://overactivecreativity.com/'", "" , $search_term ));
I was trying to strip off the site’s root url from the search but ‘$search_term’ was coming in as ‘http://www.overactivecreativity.com/’.
Since it didn’t match the criteria, it was not getting trimmed, and when I replaced ‘/’ with ‘ ‘ in the next line, I ended up running a query with “http: overactivecreativity.com zeebot” as the query string.
Just to verify, I copied that query string into the search widget in the side panel, and did get the same single post as a search result.
Thank you for the help, I solved the problem and learned about a new tool that is incredibly handy. Much appreciated.