Results page crashes with PHP 8 fatal errors
Search results page crashes with fatal or deprecated PHP errors on PHP 8 and later.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 4 December 2025 · last reported 20 May 2026
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that the search results page either shows a critical error or goes blank after they update the plugin or move to PHP 8.2 and newer. Some see deprecation warnings from an older text-encoding function, others see an undefined variable and a type error in the search override code, and one reports a plain server error. Live search may still look fine on the front end while the full results page fails, so owners often learn about it from their host or from a visitor. These are sites that depend on search to find products and articles. A monitor that flags PHP errors on search pages, with the exact cause, would help owners and their developers catch these breaks quickly.
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Products affected
Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter.
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Who has this problem
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