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Erwin

08-30-2006 02:31 AM

Good idea, but would be dependent on how quickly your bot spiders the posts? And it won't be able to spider private forums.

BoardTracker

08-30-2006 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yorixz

I'm wondering; will this actually return better search results than the default search, as I know, out of experience, that it doesn't really check for relevance but mainly just lists the hits, while search engines like Google check other (probably more important) things.

Yes. BoardTracker search returns relevant results. Much more relevant than internal search does. And much more so than google.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin

Good idea, but would be dependent on how quickly your bot spiders the posts? And it won't be able to spider private forums.

Indeed it is dependent of the crawler of BoardTracker. But this is much more timely and accurate than one might imagine. Threads are detected very accurately and efficiently. Most threads are indexed less than an hour after creation. In cases of busy forums, this is many times even more frequent.
BoardTracker can index private/hidden forums, but that requires the board administrator to ask for that specifically.

BoardTracker

10-01-2006 07:51 AM

A couple of minor additions..

You can make the search page open the advanced options automatically by adding adv=1 to the link. For example if you use the hardcoded searchbt.php link on the 'advanced search' link in the little dropdown search box on every page which is in the navbar template.

The new link would look like: searchbt.php?adv=1

If you are using the dynamic method rather than just hardcoding the advanced search link in the template then you just need to edit the url in the "Restrict vbsearch to certain usergroups" plugin. Just open that and change this line..

Code:

header("Location: http://$bt_host$bt_uri/searchbt.php");

to this..

Code:

header("Location: http://$bt_host$bt_uri/searchbt.php?adv=1");

You can also make 'search this forum' link/form work directly also..

Open the FORUMDISPLAY template..

Find..

Code:

<form action="search.php?do=process" method="post">

Replace with..

Code:

<form action="searchbt.php" method="get">

Find..

Code:

<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forumid" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a>

Replace with..

Code:

<a href="searchbt.php?$session[sessionurl]frm=$forumid&adv=1" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a>

Find..

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />

<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice[]" value="$forumid" />

<input type="hidden" name="childforums" value="1" />

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" style="width:175px" />

Replace with..

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="frm" value="$forumid" />

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="search" size="20" style="width:175px" />

BoardTracker

10-09-2006 11:58 AM

Version 2.0.6 released which includes the updates mentioned in the previous post plus simplified navbar template edits which will make it easier to add navbar edits required by our tags mod.

:cool:

soletrader

10-09-2006 02:18 PM

Is it possible to place inside a vbadvanced module?

BoardTracker

10-09-2006 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soletrader

Is it possible to place inside a vbadvanced module?

What exactly is a vbadvanced module?

soletrader

10-09-2006 04:08 PM

Check my site index at www.traderslaboratory.com

The navigation on the left, the skype on the right, the new articles in the middle, the welcome to traders laboratory box in the center are all examples of modules. I would like to bring the tags on my site index so would be a nice idea to stick it in a module.

BoardTracker

10-10-2006 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soletrader

You refer to the tags mod...
It's very simple..
If you have the tags mod installed, you can use a very simple javascript to place a tagcloud whereever you want, even the index page. You can then visually format it it anyway you want.

As described here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=128642

Code:

<!-- Tag Cloud -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

<td class="tcat">$vbphrase[bt_tag_cloud]</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="alt1" align="center">

<script type="text/javascript" language=Javascript src="http://www.boardtracker.com/cloud/js/?board={$vbulletin->options['bt_tag_boardid']}&items=20&smallsize=6&bigsize=20&hot=e01010&cold=4090a0&days=90&linktype={$vbulletin->options['bt_tag_link_type']}"></script>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<!-- End Tag Cloud -->

Configuring the following items in the script link: &items=, &smallsize=, &bigsize=, &hot=, &cold= and &days= you can decide exactly how you want the tag cloud to look like :)

I hope in answers the question.

BoardTracker

10-11-2006 03:53 PM

Make sure to also check out our very cool thread tagging and tag search system for vb3.6 here!

It allows your members to tag threads and provides a fully integrated search engine - similar in appearance to this mod - which also shows a tag cloud and related tags and provides advanced seach options.

Tag links can use mod_rewrite or standard links and there's lots of options to play with in the control panel. Your tag cloud can easily be put on any page you want - even on other sites!

Tags are stored locally in your db as well as indexed by boardtracker and again all the heavy work of searching is handled by our servers! :cool:

TRR	11-07-2006 07:44 AM

I really like this search engine, but I really dislike that when users click the "New Posts" link in the Navbar, it redirects to a search page and doesn't display posts that the user has not yet read. This is one of my board's most used features so I had to disable boardtracker search so that my users could have the "New Posts" link work the way it is supposed to. Is there an easy fix for this? I really want to turn boardtracker back on... :)

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