1) &exclude=x,y,z where x,y, and z are forumids
2) you can't
3) same as 2, you can only exclude

ProAnz, if you have questions regarding the modification, you need to ask them in the modification thread.

Thanks so much for your quick reply, Lynn.

I have about 100 forums and would need to exclude 95 of them for my purposes hehe. Will this cause extra strain or resources on the server?

Also, do you know what template or php file "parses" this search query? I could probably pay one of my friends a couple dollars to rewrite it to utilize an INCLUDE query instead of EXCLUDE.

Thanks in advance, you're a life saver!

It's not a matter of rewriting the template, it's a matter of rewriting the search query and that is in the search.php page.

"Include" works for me. With forums, anyway.

Include works?

Now that I think about it, can't you just add "&forumid=x,y,z" into the query like you do for the rss?

Or, now that I think again.... look at the vb.org page where it says "Click here to view latest topics" - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/search.ph...aveprefs=false - so they use forumid and then childforums=1 to include the childforums.

Why didn't I think of that before? :o (Thanks for getting me to rethink this, Videx!)