[Dean C]

Custom Searches

This modification offers a great flexibility in that you can make other searches. Unfortunately you can only choose one at a time but this post will contain a list of some of the other search options you can choose.

How to make/add a search

You can only use TWO arguements when writing your search addon. These are BOTH the word in question. These are referenced by placing %1s and %2s within your search string. It'll replace these with the word.

What you need to do is find the last search. by default it will be

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Then below it place the custom search. Be sure to place the X with the next number down.

List of custom searches

Urban Dictionary

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Yahoo Search

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[vBTotal]

cool, thanks

[Lethal]

nice

[NightWalk8r]

very cool.....thanks =D

[glenvw]

Cool!

This will really help me find posts in a hurry.

[Lionel]

That does not work with foreign languages with accent. For example the character " ï " is not recognized, therefore is skipped. Haïfa becomes Hafa in the thread title.

it also skips characters such as "(" etc... basically distorting the title

[Dean C]

I deliberately did this. Foreign characters are not recognized by vB3's search (when using the query string), and also not by most sites which allow input from the query string. The same with other characters like brackets

[okc]

Dean - thx so much for working on this - I changed the text in my showthread.php then replaced the old file with the new - I don't see a change on my boards - did I do s/thing wrong?

Cheers

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by okc

Dean - thx so much for working on this - I changed the text in my showthread.php then replaced the old file with the new - I don't see a change on my boards - did I do s/thing wrong?

Cheers

I don't know is the honest answer. Are you using vB3.0.3? Make sure you added the code in the right place? I just applied this modification to my second test board and it works there too so it must be something your end

[okc]

I have vb3.03

Do I I ftp the file to my desktop, open in wordpad, then add the changes & then ftp the file back to my forums folder, or do I have to go into myphp admin?

Also, do I include th etext in orange or not?

Thx guys

[´ÀÉ`SÌLVÉR´ÀÉ`]

sounds like a nice hack, might have some use for this

[okc]

Could anyone giveme some guidance as to why this isn't working - or what should I see on my threads - I don't notice anything different. How does it manifest itself on the bboard?

Thx

[okc]

Forget it - it's working - thx!

[okc]

One more question - does anyone know how to add a small bit of text next to the searchable thread title that would let users know about this feature so they don't miss it? - like "<-- click on word to search"