Ty so much for share your marvelous hack. Its really great hack and works nicelly with vb367.:up:

just 2 things.

1) why it adds on phrases some that are identical on the regular vB search phrases? could not use those of vB?

2) A very odd thing is: Try to click on "Number Of Search Results" and all PM will be flagged/unflagged (selected all/unselected all) - I installed also this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=149710 but I do not thing is the cause.

apologises for my terrible itanglish:erm:


take care

regards

ciao

Thx, i'll fix this bug in the next release.

Thaliada, yes, the first line of the php code plugin does indeed start with that code.

The other pm plugins i have installed are:
Calculate Percentage of PM Quota Used

I don't think this will be useful, but i also had installed at one point Private Message Attachments v1.53 but then i uninstalled it completely because it wasn't compatible. I tried uninstalling and re-installing PM search after this but i still get the same SQL error.

I also installed vbAnonymyzer, version 2.5, which basically works to change URL's, but i disabled this plugin and tried getting PM Search to work, and same prob again. I didn't update to vbanon 2.7 yet but i don't think that would fix the problem.

Any ideas what the conflict may be?

Try to disable the other plugins, if that doesn't work im sry. I don't know what else could cause this error.
You can remove from the code, to avoid the error, but the search won't be folder specific anymore.

I uninstalled the product, re-imported/re-installed it with that line removed from the xml file.
When i enter a search term, it doesn't go anywhere, no error page, and no results either. Thanks for your help anyway, but i'm going to have to give up on this hack, at least for now. Hopefully someday vb will make this default though, it really should be!

I install it at 3.6.7 PL1 and I use it to search by keyword, I can't found any PMs
but used member account it's work.
My website is Chinese forums. So, the key word does work for Chinese?

Open manually some PM from that user.
Copy any long enough word from PM's text.
And try to search with each by pasting that word.

I have do that
even I copy these PMs key words to paste at searching engine used ASCII
but search engine show error back to me--
Please specify some words or valid user names to search on. There were no matches for those that you specified

The Mod works on 3.6.8.

Wonderul mod! IMO should be default in VB, installed!