Issue with Class JEventDispatcher not found in J4 - using com_search Topic is solved

[mojito]

Am having the same error, I am running cassiopeia so that's confusing. It's only when I run the search component and the page also 404's

error - Uncaught Throwable of type Error thrown with message "Class "JEventDispatcher" not found". Stack trace: #0 [ROOT]/libraries/src/MVC/View/AbstractView.php(146): SearchModelSearch->getAreas() #1 [ROOT]/components/com_search/views/search/view.html.php(41): Joomla\CMS\MVC\View\AbstractView->get() #2 [ROOT]/libraries/src/MVC/Controller/BaseController.php(645): SearchViewSearch->display() #3 [ROOT]/components/com_search/controller.php(34): Joomla\CMS\MVC\Controller\BaseController->display() #4 [ROOT]/libraries/src/MVC/Controller/BaseController.php(678): SearchController->display() #5 [ROOT]/components/com_search/search.php(13): Joomla\CMS\MVC\Controller\BaseController->execute() #6 [ROOT]/libraries/src/Dispatcher/LegacyComponentDispatcher.php(71): require_once('/home/....') #7 ..[ROOT]/libraries/src/Dispatcher/LegacyComponentDispatcher.php(73): Joomla\CMS\Dispatcher\LegacyComponentDispatcher::Joomla\CMS\Dispatcher\{closure}() #8 [ROOT]/libraries/src/Component/ComponentHelper.php(361): Joomla\CMS\Dispatcher\LegacyComponentDispatcher->dispatch() #9 [ROOT]/libraries/src/Application/SiteApplication.php(208): Joomla\CMS\Component\ComponentHelper::renderComponent() #10 [ROOT]/libraries/src/Application/SiteApplication.php(249): Joomla\CMS\Application\SiteApplication->dispatch() #11 [ROOT]/libraries/src/Application/CMSApplication.php(293): Joomla\CMS\Application\SiteApplication->doExecute() #12 [ROOT]/includes/app.php(61): Joomla\CMS\Application\CMSApplication->execute() #13 [ROOT]/index.php(32): require_once('/home/u91792887...') #14 {main}

I will report back if I find the issue. Have tried resetting the menu item to the native joomla search item type.

[SharkyKZ]

Update Search extension. You can download it from here https://github.com/joomla-extensions/search/releases. And consider migrating to Smart Search or a 3rd party search extension.

[mojito]

Thank you sharky, that has removed the error for me. I get no search results and also tried the smart search. I am doing this work on a preview domain and that is causing a few things to not work as expected but this fixed the IMMEDIATE issue for me. Thanks.

[hadyeldebs]

Hello @SharkyKZ , @mojito
Please can you give me more details what to do after downloading the file "pkg-search-4.1.0.zip " from https://github.com/joomla-extensions/search/releases. ?
how to update the search extension? i am totally new for this
is it somewhere here (attached image) where I should do anything?

[AMurray]

Customise Templates is not the correct section. You install Extensions through Extension Manager.

A "package" extension simply contains a mixture of plugin, component or module. Normally extensions are named like mod_filename or plg_filename, com_filename, but pkg_filename is also an extension type (or rather as said above, contains multiple extensions that are installed in one go).

If you're new to Joomla please read this information:
https://docs.joomla.org/Installing_an_extension

and for an overall grounding in Joomla, start with: https://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Beginners

[mojito]

As Al said. On left site click system then there is a block on the left called Install then click Extensions in that block. You then want the second tab 'Upload Package File' hit the downloaded zip and you should see a success message. Then usually under components you will get a new menu item pertaining to what you just installed.

[toivo]

The solution staring us in the eye here is to discard the old Search component com_search and its plugins and start using Smart Search, com_finder, with its own plugins.

Here are two articles from the Joomla Magazine that will get you started:
Transition your Joomla 4 website from Search to Smart Search
Customizing Joomla 4's Smart Search Results Pages with Images, Custom Fields and a new Layout

[hadyeldebs]

Thank you AMurray, mojito, & Toivo, this was so helpful. have great day and keep up the good work.