'&pp=' Tag Search Results Per page
 

The number of results shown for a Tag search is not set in the ACP. I found this in tags.php (about line 160)

It appears that a number can be placed after the = sign in '&pp=' but I don't know the syntax. Can someone tell me how that is structured?

Thanx

tags.php?tag=xxxx&pp=yyyy

I'm sorry Lynne, you woofed me. I know you're telling me something but I don't know what it is. I was expecting to enter a number into '&pp=' after the '=' sign, with some syntax around the number. What are you telling me?

You just enter a number after the =. pp means "per page". So enter the number of tags results you want shown per page.

I tried that, three different ways:

$base = 'tags.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] .
'tag=' . $vbulletin->GPC['tag'] . '&pp= 5 ' . $perpage;

$base = 'tags.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] .
'tag=' . $vbulletin->GPC['tag'] . '&pp=5 ' . $perpage;

$base = 'tags.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] .
'tag=' . $vbulletin->GPC['tag'] . '&pp=5' . $perpage;

It still shows all the threads with a given tag on one page, much more than 5, in this example.

You can't have .$perpage after the number - 5 *is* the $perpage variable! Either set $perpage beforehand, or remove it:

$base = 'tags.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] .
'tag=' . $vbulletin->GPC['tag'] . '&pp=5';

I think maybe part of the problem is that that's the base url for making links in the results page, but you'd still need to set the perpage passed to $view->showpage() below that.

I don't understand the code since $perpage is never set (unless it's set in another file somewhere, but I couldn't find it).

I'd think that this section of code (lines 159 to 164):


should be something like this (green is what I added, red is a change to existing line):


There's also code in vb/search/resultsview.php in the showpage function that checks for the value of perpage (the second parameter), and if it's not set it uses the value of $vbulletin->options['searchperpage'] with a max of 200, so if you used the above code you'd be overriding that.

BTW, I haven't actually tried any of the above.

No go Lynne, still shows too many in the list.

Thank you for researching this kh99, but what you are proposing there is beyond me. I was hoping for a one-place setting.

I guess I am not seeing the same problem. If I go to search by tags and add "&pp=2" to the end of the url, I get only two threads on each page of my results:

tags.php?tag=cats&pp=2

Are you saying that if you add "&pp=2" to the end of your url, that you still get 20 threads per page?

FWIW, I assumed that TWood was trying to change the default results per page for all tags searches, and not just for a specific search.

Yes.

I was hoping that changing the code in tags.php at line 160 so that any search on tags by anybody will return a set number per page. Setting the number of results for searches in the admin CP has no affect on tag searches because that search uses search.php but a tag search uses tags.php to initiate the tag search.

Lynne - I'm not appending any code to a search, I want to change the search code for all tag searches, and I thought this place in tags.php at line 160 looked like the place to do it.

What I was suggesting wasn't really that much (if you were to compare that code with the existing code). But I think a simpler way to do it would be to make the change suggested in post #6, and also change this (line 164):


to this


But in the existing code you can (or you should also be able to) override the default by specifying a value on the url like Lynne mentioned above, so I was suggesting a few more changes to preserve that feature.
(I modified post #7 to make it easier to see the changes).

kh99 - Brilliant!

Thank You!