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Originally Posted by rafaelrls

Man, first clean the code (correct the remarks). Them you should see an error report more acurate.

I tried both way as below and replacing // instead of + but the error is same

PHP Code:

   <?php

/** We urlencoded the whole search string so we need to

  * urldecode and convert it back to utf-8

  */

  + $id = $id === 0 ? '' : utf8_encode(urldecode($id));

  +

 
        if ($id != '' && !strstr($id, '|'))

    {

        $keywords = $db->real_escape_string(trim($id));

    }

I'm not a coder and I couldn't catch the coder who created this. Any help will be highly apreciated.