{"id":1162,"date":"2026-08-09T02:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:03:43","slug":"joomla-6-legacy-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Joomla! 6 &#8211; Legacy Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-1024x472.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-1024x472.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-300x138.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-768x354.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-1536x707.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-2048x943.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joomla6-500x230.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Joomla 6, the castAsChar() database query method is deprecated or removed, causing a method doesn&#8217;t exist fatal error. Fix this by replacing it with the standard $query->castAs(&#8216;CHAR&#8217;, &#8216;a.id&#8217;) method syntax. If you are still using the legacy search, instead of the new Smart Search component, replace all occurrences of <strong><em>castAsChar( <\/em><\/strong>with <strong><em>castAs(&#8216;CHAR&#8217;,<\/em><\/strong> in Search Plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Joomla 6, the castAsChar() database query method is deprecated or removed, causing a method doesn&#8217;t exist fatal error. Fix this by replacing it with the standard $query->castAs(&#8216;CHAR&#8217;, &#8216;a.id&#8217;) method syntax. If you are still using the legacy search, instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=1162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}