No search results with PHP search

[Rob-L]

I'm experiencing a strange problem. I can index my site fine using the CGI search, but if I use the same configuration and change it to PHP search and leave all other settings alone, the PHP version will not return any results!

Here are my searches:

CGI - http://www.mytoolstore.com/cgi-bin/zoom/search.cgi

PHP - http://www.mytoolstore.com/cgi-bin/zoomphp/search.php

We sell tools, so you can use Hammer Drills as an example search phrase. Again, each of these configurations are exactly the same, except one is output to CGI and one is PHP.

The reason I'd like to change to PHP is because it's easier for me to tweak the script in PHP.

[David]

We have seen this problem several times.

The PHP script runs and the output of the HTML on the result page starts, but then stops abruptly.

You have CPU time and or RAM usage limits on your server. See this old post for details,
http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12

Your hosting company is killing the PHP script before it can finish executing. Warning: Your hosting company my initially deny they have a problem (becuase this is the nature of hosting companies), but we are 99% sure this is the problem after looking at your site.

The CGI script is abut 5 to 10 times quicker than PHP. And it uses less RAM. Thus it can finish before being killed.

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David