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Neutral Singh
11-11-2005, 10:00 PM
Boolean Search in Search Drop-Down Menu Option in Navbar
[Should work in all vB 3.5.x versions]


All Thanks To Jake Bunce, vBulletin Team

Context: I was wondering, how could we set up the boolean search as the default option for quick search from serach drop-down menu

Installation Instructions:



Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> ? ? -> Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates -> navbar



Find this code, add the red code:





<if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">

<!-- header quick search form -->

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_search_menu" style="display:none">

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

<tr>

<td class="thead">$vbphrase[search_forums]</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">

<form action="search.php" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />

<input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="0" />

<input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

<input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="1" />

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" />&nbsp;$gobutton<br />

</form>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a></td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

<!-- / header quick search form -->

</if>





That should do it.

Thats All folks, Enjoy!!

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Boofo
11-12-2005, 07:31 AM
2 things:

Can you please post a text file for this?

And, what is "Boolean Search?"

;)
Snake
11-12-2005, 11:20 AM
That's what I'm wondering too. lol
AN-net
11-12-2005, 11:44 AM
boolearn search is where you can specify that certain words are more important than others or to skip entries containing certain words. or if two words are to be consectutive. it goes with full text searching.
Boofo
11-12-2005, 01:04 PM
boolearn search is where you can specify that certain words are more important than others or to skip entries containing certain words. or if two words are to be consectutive. it goes with full text searching.

I guess I've never played with that feature. How would you do it?
AN-net
11-12-2005, 01:46 PM
<a href="http://www.mysql.com" target="_blank">www.mysql.com</a> has a great documentation this. you would use a "+" sign in front of words you want to appear in a search and a "-" sign in front of words you do not want your results to include. example:
+vbulletin -.org
that would yield all results with vbulletin but no results containing .org
Tulsa
11-13-2005, 01:17 PM
I like the idea of being able to search for phrases instead of just key words but for some reason I am not seeing the "red" code you're speaking of. I've looked at this thread with both "Firefox" on a Mac and IE on a PC and nothing is coming up red or any other color for that matter.
ShadowOne
11-18-2005, 10:05 PM
yah i dont see the red code....
shovel
11-18-2005, 10:33 PM
yah i dont see the red code....

Me either. But after comparison.

Add:
<input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="1" />

After:
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

Under:
<!-- header quick search form -->

Hope that helps. Enjoy.

Ps.
It might make it a little better on you, Neutral Singh, if you add the definition of Boolean and Boolean Searching to your first post, that way you don't have to constantly explain. Good hack though, I didn't even know it existed in the form. Nice job.
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J0iN
07-03-2007, 07:58 PM
Great Work :D