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X-Fan
03-23-2003, 12:40 PM
G'day all,

I'd like to request a keyboard-based related threads hack. My site is primarily a comic book news site, and what I'd find very useful is a hack that would allow you to enter keywords when posting a new thread in a forum designated as a news forum.

Then, on viewing that thread, the system would search the first post of other threads in designated news forums for the keywords then display a shortlist of related threads (an admin-editable number) directly under the first post.

Is there anyone that would be willing to write such a hack, please?
X-Fan
03-24-2003, 10:46 PM
Bump...
TheComputerGuy
03-25-2003, 01:13 AM
What about the Similar Thread Hack? doees pretty much what you asked for.
X-Fan
03-25-2003, 01:27 AM
I've tried that one, but it's matching is based on the contents of the post, rather than specific keywords. As such, some of its similar threads aren't all that similar! ;)
X-Fan
09-21-2003, 08:59 AM
Bump...
ScottA
10-04-2003, 08:20 PM
I wrote something similar to what you're looking for about a year ago. It's a separate script that returns threads based on some given keywords. My purpose was to display a related threads listing with articles on NissanPerformanceMag.com. It's like the "similar threads" hack but searches the message bodies using keywords. It's not what you're looking for, but it may help. :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=44655
X-Fan
11-03-2003, 10:13 PM
Yeah, not quite what I was looking for, thanks anyway Scott.