Member Search on Search Drop Down [Archive]

Exitilus

09-27-2006, 10:00 PM

What is This?

This Product / Mod will add a Member Search Drop Down (And Link to Advanced Member Search) to the Navbar Search Dropdown

Installation

Just Import / Install the Product :D

vbAdvanced Setup(Thanks to TheMilkCarton)

Portal Output Global Variables:

member_searchform

Exitilus

09-28-2006, 02:36 AM

For the curious, here's a Image.

Comalies

09-28-2006, 11:10 AM

This could be really useful...

Quarterbore

09-28-2006, 06:41 PM

What is in the "Advanced" member search?

SCRIPT3R

09-28-2006, 07:25 PM

What is in the "Advanced" member search?
it appears to be the default Member Search page.

Exitilus

09-28-2006, 08:47 PM

Yup. It's the page where you can specify what you want to search for instead of just username.

ztempuser

10-02-2006, 04:51 AM

great fast edit
handy, and small:)

AzH

10-21-2006, 03:41 PM

Which template please?

Muellmann

10-21-2006, 08:06 PM

Which template please?
navbar

but it brings a blank screen for every search
I just needed to modify it that it works so I can't click install yet

Exitilus

10-23-2006, 11:00 PM

Should just work out of the box unless there has been customizations already done to the search function (or something in Navbar Template interferring)

sunnycher

11-26-2006, 01:32 PM

I love this but it throws my borders off :(

Exitilus

11-26-2006, 03:01 PM

how does it throw them off ?

sunnycher

11-26-2006, 03:16 PM

If you look at my site, www.lgpphotographers.com,
the nav bar? When I installed this, it made the nav bar wider than the rest of the forum, through the borders, kwim?
I'd like to keep it within the borders, as wide as the rest of the forums/header.

Exitilus

11-26-2006, 03:54 PM

would you happen to have a temporary log in I could use? Doesn't have the search option.

I'm also working on making this a product as well. (Which would include how it works) But I'd still like to see what it does to your site :)

Exitilus

11-26-2006, 10:29 PM

I've updated this as a product. Hopefully it'll work better. It seems to be working 100% on my site so hopefully ... *lol*

thepub

11-27-2006, 01:01 AM

installed and looks great!

Trana

11-27-2006, 02:48 AM

Nice, but it doesn't show up on my navbar in my CMPS index page, only things below /forum/.

Also, the columns don't span properly so there is a little bit of extra space.

Exitilus

11-27-2006, 03:06 AM

Nice, but it doesn't show up on my navbar in my CMPS index page, only things below /forum/.

Also, the columns don't span properly so there is a little bit of extra space.

Hmm works fine with my CMPS.

As for the columns. It could be due to the fact there is differences between the versions and the Input Search Size. In some I see it's 20 in others 25. What you can do is check in your navbar Template and see what the size is for. (See below)

<div><input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="25" tabindex="1001" /><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" tabindex="1004" /></div>

katholic

11-28-2006, 12:28 PM

I am receiving this.. Uncached templates: member_searchform (1) ... Is there a fix for this?

Exitilus

11-28-2006, 03:36 PM

Verify that the template exists :)

katholic

11-28-2006, 04:02 PM

The template is there yes with this script...

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead">Member Search</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="memberlist.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="getall" />
<div><input type="text" class="bginput" name="ausername" size="25" value="$ltr" title="$vbphrase[username]" /> $gobutton</div>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="memberlist.php?do=search$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">Advanced Member Search</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Exitilus

11-28-2006, 05:15 PM

Try this Katholic. I'd suggest no one else try this until further notice. But this is a updated version that i think should cache the template

Edit: hmmm I'll look into the issue further

katholic

11-28-2006, 08:35 PM

Still doing it.

katholic

11-29-2006, 09:12 AM

That fixed it... Thanks!

Exitilus

11-29-2006, 04:13 PM

no problem. Thanks for being my guinea pig *lol* .. I'll release this version later on with some possible updates. When I do you may wanna update as well :)

katholic

11-29-2006, 10:47 PM

Anytime... I installed the upgrade and no problems to report =)

Exitilus

11-30-2006, 05:19 AM

Good to hear :)

Saulie

11-30-2006, 03:12 PM

I just installed the updated version and everything is fine however I am having the same problem as the person before, the member search doesn't display on my CMPS just the forum.

Also the background strip doesn't repeat to the end of the window like the forum search background does. It's hard to explain so I have added the image as an attachment.

Exitilus

11-30-2006, 07:41 PM

Saulie

12-01-2006, 10:15 AM

What CMPS do you use? I use vbAdvanced and it works fine. :)

Hmmm That's quite interesting .... What style are you using ?

I am using vbAdvanced v2.2.1, if you want to have a look my site is www.emoth.com (http://emoith.com), don't see why it wouldn't work for it.

Trana

12-02-2006, 04:53 PM

I am using vbAdvanced v2.2.1, if you want to have a look my site is www.emoth.com (http://emoith.com), don't see why it wouldn't work for it.

Just as a side note, the diagonal line backgrounds and gradients makes it very difficult to view this page.

sunnycher

12-02-2006, 06:27 PM

LOVE IT! Thank you!! Works great now :) I appreciate the fix very much!

Saulie

12-05-2006, 04:05 PM

Just as a side note, the diagonal line backgrounds and gradients makes it very difficult to view this page.

I know, everyone has been telling me the same thing, even my mum =P. I am going to add an easy to read skin soon for those who might find it hard to read the titles and headigns on the site.

WtwSkippy

12-06-2006, 02:38 PM

Installed, this is going to be very useful on my site. Thanks for the mod!

grecostimpy

12-15-2006, 06:22 PM

Hmmm...mine does not work on the CMPS as well. Otherwise, great hack.

TheMilkCarton

02-11-2007, 06:36 PM

Anyone know how to make this work in vBadvanced? It only shows up in the dropdown on pages under /forums/.

I also have the width issue like Saulie, but it only appears in Safari, I believe.

Otherwise, great hack!

EDIT:

I figured it out. I wasn't sure what all variables are needed, so to be safe I added them all.

In vBa CMPS Default Settings add:

navbar_member_search
navbar_advanced_search
member_searchform

to the Portal Output Global Variables.

Exitilus: I'd recommend adding these instructions in the first post. :)

Edit #2:

Something's not working quite right on mine.. it doesn't redirect to /forums/ like it should when searching from your CMPS. Maybe it's just mine? Let me know.

Exitilus

02-11-2007, 07:01 PM

Lemme take a look :) I'll edit this post once I'm done.

Fixed :) Setting the Update

TheMilkCarton

02-11-2007, 07:37 PM

Awesome! Thank you for the credit. :)

It works like a charm now.

Edit:

I tested it out with just the "member_searchform" in the CMPS Global Variables, and it still works, so it looks like the other two variables aren't needed. You should test it out too to make sure. :)

Exitilus

02-11-2007, 07:54 PM

Makes sense since that is the Variable used. I was never really too concerned about getting it to work with vba heh ....

adwade

02-13-2007, 01:28 PM

Forgive me if this question is out of place here, but I was wondering if it would be possible to have this MOD search on an Additional Profile Field rather than a member name?

On our board (http://www.recumbentriders.org/forums/) we try and group users by State or Country, so it would be a GREAT MOD for us if we could get it to default search the STATE Profile Field each user has.

Is that something that's relatively simple, or pretty much impossible??

Exitilus

02-14-2007, 02:17 AM

I think it would be fairly easy to do by changing the search part of the form. The hard part is finding out the search syntax you would need.

phreak2010

03-28-2007, 08:09 AM

clicked install :-)

hkvic

07-02-2007, 01:41 PM

Many thanks. A really useful addition to my site. Installed.

dackdigital

07-02-2007, 03:56 PM

gracias istalado.

Alfa1

07-02-2007, 09:47 PM

Very nice. But how can I make the 'member search' block less wide? It's now wider than the 'search forums' block. And it looks out of place like this.

Exitilus

07-08-2007, 09:21 PM

Edit the search_memberform and locate

<div><input type="text" class="bginput" name="ausername" size="25" value="$ltr" title="$vbphrase[username]" />$gobutton</div>

Change the size to match what the Search Size is.

Alfa1

07-11-2007, 03:40 PM

That makes it much better, but does not solve it. The search boxes are now at the same size. There is no space between the box and the 'go' button. There should be 0.5 between them.

sunnycher

09-17-2007, 11:32 PM

I can't get this to work on my new style or my CMPS portal pages. I've done the suggested, any other fixes?

Alfa1

09-18-2007, 12:46 AM

Yes, vbadvanced handles the navbar in a different way than vbulletin. This is a bit annoying at times, but overall the vba team are very willing to find solutions. Please create a thread about this on www.vbadvanced.com/forum and post the link here. It might take some time before they respond.
I do not know about your new style, but it may be the same problem.