Permenant search links?

[Borgs8472]

Hey all. To avoid splitting up my media forum by subject too much, I decided to install 'subforum' links which ran searches for e.g. 'Star Trek' and 'Buffy' etc.

I saved the search ID of the relevent search and made them subforum links. It worked at first, but now they return no results, obviously the system has 'forgotton' the searchs I did or something...

I'm sure this has been done before, can anyone help? :D

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Search results are only kept for a limited timeframe, i think it is 7 days, but not sure.

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
It likely varies depending on how many searches are performed. Suffice to say, my preset search links only worked for a few hours. :(

Is there a way of programming the search function without referencing an ID for permenent searches like I'm trying to do?

E.g at vb there's:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/search.php?do=getdaily&days=1000&f=33

Are there parameters I can call with the search function do find search for keywords in a forum?

[smju]

The reason your searches disappear is down to the Scheduled Task that runs Cleanup.php. In our case we run it every hour.

There is a section in there that specifically deletes the contents of the Search table, for all searches with a timestamp at least 1 hour old.

Thus if you have specific searches that you wish to keep, you will need to exclude them from the SQL statement.

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
cool, how do I do that?

Do I exclude some selected search ids? (can do)

Or do I do something else? And how do I do this? :/

[smju]

You would need to amend the WHERE section of the statement, along the lines of

WHERE ... {existing stuff}
AND NOT searchid = nnn or nnn or nnn

but you would need to get a decent SQL coder to give you an efficient statement {It would take me quite a long while to figure it out}.

[Borgs8472]

Need help! :D

So close yet so far... :(

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can also use a list of search terms after the ? Like:
search.php?query=SEARCHWORD

You can also use the following keywords:
'query'
'searchuser'
'exactname'
'starteronly'
'forumchoice',
'childforums'
'titleonly'
'showposts'
'searchdate'
'beforeafter'
'sortby'
'sortorder'
'replyless'
'replylimit'
'searchthread'
'searchthreadid'

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
that's cool, I can use query to put together the search I want, e.g.

http://www.wordforge.net/forum/search.php?query=star%20trek&forumchoice=14

But I don't want to go to the search screen, straight to the results!

[AlexanderT]

^ ^
that's cool, I can use query to put together the search I want, e.g.

http://www.wordforge.net/forum/search.php?query=star%20trek&forumchoice=14

But I don't want to go to the search screen, straight to the results!

NP at all ;) Add do=process to it, e.g.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/search.php?query=librie&do=process

Alex

[Borgs8472]

Horray! :D

Want $10? Just give me your paypal address if you have one :)

Oh well, since we're on the subject of the search function and people have already been very helpful, I don't suppose there's a way to search or multiple keywords without use of 'and'?

e.g. Buffy or Angel

In one search term ?

Oh also, I wanted to have a search for 'dr who', alas the word 'who' is ommited from my searches!

Is there a way around this? :)

[Borgs8472]

These links are great! I release a hack for this, even thought there's no hacking.

But I need help, terms in thread titles are not being picked up. I need the thread titles to be searched as well, what parameters do I have to add? :?

[Borgs8472]

/me will have to examine the manual on searches some more....

[Borgs8472]

hmmm, I think my titles are not being searched in, anyone know how to include titles for searching?

[Borgs8472]

Hmmm, this isn't working perfectly, I've got threads there, they're being searched for but won't turn up :(

Anyone got any ideas? I would love to perfect this for everyone :)