Member Search on Search Drop Down
 

What is This?

This Product / Mod will add a Member Search Drop Down (And Link to Advanced Member Search) to the Navbar Search Dropdown

Installation

Just Import / Install the Product :D

vbAdvanced Setup(Thanks to TheMilkCarton)

Portal Output Global Variables:

member_searchform

For the curious, here's a Image.

This could be really useful...

What is in the "Advanced" member search?

it appears to be the default Member Search page.

Yup. It's the page where you can specify what you want to search for instead of just username.

great fast edit
handy, and small:)

Which template please?

navbar

but it brings a blank screen for every search
I just needed to modify it that it works so I can't click install yet

Should just work out of the box unless there has been customizations already done to the search function (or something in Navbar Template interferring)

I love this but it throws my borders off :(

how does it throw them off ?

If you look at my site, www.lgpphotographers.com,
the nav bar? When I installed this, it made the nav bar wider than the rest of the forum, through the borders, kwim?
I'd like to keep it within the borders, as wide as the rest of the forums/header.

would you happen to have a temporary log in I could use? Doesn't have the search option.

I'm also working on making this a product as well. (Which would include how it works) But I'd still like to see what it does to your site :)

I've updated this as a product. Hopefully it'll work better. It seems to be working 100% on my site so hopefully ... *lol*

installed and looks great!

Nice, but it doesn't show up on my navbar in my CMPS index page, only things below /forum/.

Also, the columns don't span properly so there is a little bit of extra space.

Hmm works fine with my CMPS.

As for the columns. It could be due to the fact there is differences between the versions and the Input Search Size. In some I see it's 20 in others 25. What you can do is check in your navbar Template and see what the size is for. (See below)

I am receiving this.. Uncached templates: member_searchform (1) ... Is there a fix for this?

Verify that the template exists :)

The template is there yes with this script...

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead">Member Search</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="memberlist.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="getall" />
<div><input type="text" class="bginput" name="ausername" size="25" value="$ltr" title="$vbphrase[username]" />&nbsp;$gobutton</div>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="memberlist.php?do=search$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">Advanced Member Search</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Try this Katholic. I'd suggest no one else try this until further notice. But this is a updated version that i think should cache the template

Edit: hmmm I'll look into the issue further

Still doing it.

That fixed it... Thanks!

no problem. Thanks for being my guinea pig *lol* .. I'll release this version later on with some possible updates. When I do you may wanna update as well :)

Anytime... I installed the upgrade and no problems to report =)

Good to hear :)

I just installed the updated version and everything is fine however I am having the same problem as the person before, the member search doesn't display on my CMPS just the forum.

Also the background strip doesn't repeat to the end of the window like the forum search background does. It's hard to explain so I have added the image as an attachment.

What CMPS do you use? I use vbAdvanced and it works fine. :)

Hmmm That's quite interesting .... What style are you using ?

I am using vbAdvanced v2.2.1, if you want to have a look my site is www.emoth.com, don't see why it wouldn't work for it.

Just as a side note, the diagonal line backgrounds and gradients makes it very difficult to view this page.

LOVE IT! Thank you!! Works great now :) I appreciate the fix very much!

I know, everyone has been telling me the same thing, even my mum =P. I am going to add an easy to read skin soon for those who might find it hard to read the titles and headigns on the site.

Installed, this is going to be very useful on my site. Thanks for the mod!

Hmmm...mine does not work on the CMPS as well. Otherwise, great hack.

Anyone know how to make this work in vBadvanced? It only shows up in the dropdown on pages under /forums/.

I also have the width issue like Saulie, but it only appears in Safari, I believe.

Otherwise, great hack!

EDIT:

I figured it out. I wasn't sure what all variables are needed, so to be safe I added them all.

In vBa CMPS Default Settings add:

to the Portal Output Global Variables.

Exitilus: I'd recommend adding these instructions in the first post. :)

Edit #2:

Something's not working quite right on mine.. it doesn't redirect to /forums/ like it should when searching from your CMPS. Maybe it's just mine? Let me know.

Lemme take a look :) I'll edit this post once I'm done.

Fixed :) Setting the Update

Awesome! Thank you for the credit. :)

It works like a charm now.

Edit:

I tested it out with just the "member_searchform" in the CMPS Global Variables, and it still works, so it looks like the other two variables aren't needed. You should test it out too to make sure. :)

Makes sense since that is the Variable used. I was never really too concerned about getting it to work with vba heh ....

Forgive me if this question is out of place here, but I was wondering if it would be possible to have this MOD search on an Additional Profile Field rather than a member name?

On our board (http://www.recumbentriders.org/forums/) we try and group users by State or Country, so it would be a GREAT MOD for us if we could get it to default search the STATE Profile Field each user has.

Is that something that's relatively simple, or pretty much impossible??