Since phpbb's website says not to post it on their forum, I guess I'll post my findings here. http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/search.php?search_author=\*\'fnfnfffffa,'\*\*\cdf or http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/search.php?search_author=\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\ It seems it has something to do with the the \'s *'s and length. I am not sure if this is a big bug but I decided to try that after looking at search.php ************************************************ $search_author = str_replace('*', '%', trim($search_author)); $sql = "SELECT user_id FROM " . USERS_TABLE . " WHERE username LIKE '" . str_replace("\'", "''", $search_author) . "'"; if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) ) { message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, "Couldn't obtain list of matching users (searching for: $search_author)", "", __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql); } ********************************************* Not sure if this is anything, but it seems to be running in the sql and erroring. Thanks for your time, jtm
