Sounds like the nasty bug I was chasing here https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/pull/12143

Thanks for your response Ismayil. I removed  the remove_private_setting() and replaced it with $this->getPrivateSetting($name); see the code below.

// engine/classes/Elgg/Database/Plugins.php

$name = $this->namespacePrivateSetting('internal', 'priority');

$this->getPrivateSetting($name);

Did i do it right? It still does not work for me.

Thanks

Thanks iionly! What I wanted to achieve is to create a filter function that takes metadata_value as an input, i.e. "SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE metadata_name = 'metadata_value'".

I don't see how a general filter of metadata names for unspecific entity types/subtypes would make sense. You can use the entity explorer of the Elgg Developer tools plugin to get an idea what kind of metadata are connected to different type of entities. For example, blogs have metadata "status", "comments_on" and "excerpt". I don't see how any of these metadata types would give any useful search results. It might be different for some specific entity subtypes where some metadata would make sense to be used in a filter. But then I would think it would still be the only useful way to build up the filter specifically limited to certain entity subtypes and corresponding metadata_names (which you could either find out about using the entity explorer or maybe still better by looking into the code to figure out under what condititions a metadata exists in the first place).

The activity page already has a filter for entity subtypes. Maybe you could use the code used for this filter to have a subtype filter. Then you might want to add an additional criteria for limiting search results for example by time_created between lower and upper limits (elgg_g* functions have parameters for that). I don't know what other features for a filter would make sense.

Thanks again iionly. I know I left out the type and subtype in my query above :). I am going to study those Elgg Developer tools as you suggested