vB3.5 15 Most Recent Searches Made By Our Members
 

vB3.5 15 Most Recent Searches Made By Our Members
Version 1.0.4
(By Boofo)

What does this product do?
This product will display the last 15 searches made by your members on your main site search page at the top. The search words are then linked to those search results. It uses your censor options to make sure nothing bad shows up. The searchee will also be visible, but only to Admins. The search box will only show up when searches have been made. Searches made in your private forums are not shown to members who do not have access to those forums. It is now fully permissions based.

Version Information:
Version 1.0.0 --Initial release
Version 1.0.1 --Fixed error for new sites when the search table was empty.
Version 1.0.2 --Product is now fully self-contained. No more need for a template edit. Also changed the product name.
Version 1.0.3 --Fixed search template from repeating itself on each subsequent search.
Version 1.0.4 --Fixed searchee name being blank on a guest search.

Upgrade Instructions:
1. You MUST un-install the old product before upgrading due to the product name being changed.
1. Go to the "search_forums" template and remove "$last15searches" (sans quotes).
2. Install the product.

Credits:
A big thank you goes out to EvilSL1 for co-authoring the vB3.0 version, on which this hack has been converted.

Installation overview:
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Products to install: (1)

Thanks once again, Bob!

You're very welcome, sir. Enjoy! ;)

Dumb question. This doesn't show people doing the getnew search does it? My members do that every 2 seconds, which would make it impossible to see real search terms.

No, it only shows specific words/terms they are searching for. ;)

working fine here

*installs*

Then I'll give it a shot. Thanks Bob. (See, I spelled your name right! :D )

Oh, sure, spell it right when I release something. ;)

And you're welcome. ;)

cool :) thanks boofo *installs*

Nice addition Boofo. The 3.0 version intermitantly stopped working on me once I got past around 3.05 or so I believe - hopefully this one will work out :)! About to install - thanks a lot. :)

Does this work for both search methods (i.e. vb search, and mysql fulltext search) ?

All this hack does, is list the last 15 rows in the search table, and then apply forumpermissions on those.

This hack itself does not do any searching, so binary or fulltext search is not in the question.

So i don't really get your question.

Ah Okay, so it will work whichever method you have set on the forum.

Yes, surprisingly, I did know it doesn't do any searching .... :p

Try harder then ;) - oh, hang on - you answered it above :)

Great hack, however, for some reason I am getting an error on the search.php page??

Any thoughts?

me too

Are you installing it as a product or a plug-in?

I am installing it as a product...just as indicated :)

Thanks Boofo :)

What version of MySQL and PHP are you using?

PHP version 4.3.11

MySQL version 4.0.25

Thanks for looking into it!

Same error !?

To add something...I just ran a search and now that error is gone and displaying the search...that is kinda odd...wonder what the issue is?

You will notice that if you do in fact do a search of your own, that error will go away. Seems that when no searches are listed that is when the error appears??

Your search table was empty. You shouldn't have any problem with that error now. ;)

Don't forget the install button. ;)

So that error had to do with the fact that the table was empty? I guess if you say so as I know nothing about coding??

**clicks install just for Boofo :) **

Yes, that was it. I just had it confirmed for me by someone who knows more about arrays than I ever will. I just need to add a check to make sure there are entries in the search table is all. ;)

working now thankyou

You will notice that the error will reappear every hour unless people have been searching. (The cron system deletes the contents of the search table that are over an hour old every hour)

Im sure Boofo and Marco will solve the issue soon.

same thing here.. I would prefer not to have a cron job to delete them, and keep the last 15 searches, without a time restraint.

That would require a total re-write of this product.

The error doesn't appear for me when the search table contents are deleted. ;)

You are correct sir...I am having that issue as well.

I do not mind the cron job deleting the searches, however, I would like to not see that error every hour.

Any way to get this on the Forumhome?

It is being worked on as we speak. Sit tight.

you're not too busy are you? j/k Just a suggestion, but if it is undoable then that is fine. I would like to see the prune cron be optional, but not if it means a total re-write.

Well, between this hack and talking to lawyers and dealing with that stuff (personal), I am doing what I can as best I can at the present time.

As far as the prune cron job goes, this hack doesn't touch any of that. That is how vBulletin handles that part of it.

I am sorry, I did not mean to come accross as though I was knocking your hack or knocking you :)

No problem. ;)

I will get back to you shortly with a fix. ;)

Excellent, looking forward to it :)

Oh, no...... not that dreaded 15-Most-Recent-Searches hack?

Do you have any idea how distracting it was here when I went to search for something and a good 8 of the 15 previous searches caught my attention ... ? By the time I checked out what results someone else got back on those, I couldn't remember what I went there to search for in the first place. LOL.

:cheeky:

If the keyword(s) you're searching for don't return any results, they're not added to the list. Any way to add keywords that don't yield results to the list?