I installed this hack and it works great with my forum! :banana:

I have one question though. The way that it works, I take it it does a type of search for these "similar threads" I want to change the way it works and make it more precise by only searching the titles and not the contents of the threads. This way it wont matter the contents of the post is, the similarity will have to occur in the title of the threads.

Can somebody help me how to do this? It should be fairly easy, I just have any clue. :(

Please help.

I'd strongly suggest replacing:



with



on a board that dates back a couple years worth of posts... this seems to help show only the most recent 'similar threads'

All that will do is display it in order by tread title instead of order by date. I think it only looks at the thread title for matches already, doesn't it? ;)

a) by 'threadid DESC' it orders the found threads in descensing thread ID order... which gives you the most recent threads, in order that they have been started, not replied to. It's much more relevant to pull up things from this year.. than say 2001.


b) Yes, but Im not changing WHAT it searches, just how it orders them.

Can somebody still help me with my first question? I want it so that the way it ranks similar threads is done by thread title alone and not by the contents of the thread. The way my forum is setup the current searching isn't as good as if it was based on the title of the thread alone.

Anybody? :(

That's how it already searches.

hmmm. :surprised:

Well how about making the words that are before each other more important that the following words.

So a title that is "Unreal II movie"

wont bring up similar threads, just because their title has the word "movie" in it. Movie isn't going to be important. But other titles that have "Unreal" are going to be more important .

Can you do that?

It should bring up anything that has "movie" or "Unreal" in it. And even "II". I have mine set to show 10 threads instead of the default 5. Maybe that will help? It would be kind of hard to selectively pick the order of words in the title, I think.

OK, I changed it to 10 and out of those ten threads, only 2 reffer to Unreal or Unreal 2. Is it possible to have it use the first words of the title? I mean movie could be anynumber of threads. Most threads are going to have the important words first. So I was hoping something could be done about having it more relative to the other words. This way the closer they are to the beginning of the thread title, the higher ranking they have in the search. Is something like this possible?

I was also noticing that the previous version of this hack supported descriptions, but I didn't happen to notice anywhere in the code to turn that feature on. Is it in there and I missed it or does V2 not support descriptions?

Ok, I have a test forum, where there are only 2 threads -_- so far, but the smiliar threads thing doesn't show up on showthread? why, help please, I am using vb2.2.9, there are no errors, just that smiliar threads don't show up, nothing shows up, everything is exactly the same as it was before i installed the hack, I even replied in both threads and made a new thread, doesn't work at all. help plz..