Permenant search links?
 

Hey all. To avoid splitting up my media forum by subject too much, I decided to install 'subforum' links which ran searches for e.g. 'Star Trek' and 'Buffy' etc.

I saved the search ID of the relevent search and made them subforum links. It worked at first, but now they return no results, obviously the system has 'forgotton' the searchs I did or something...

I'm sure this has been done before, can anyone help? :D

Search results are only kept for a limited timeframe, i think it is 7 days, but not sure.

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It likely varies depending on how many searches are performed. Suffice to say, my preset search links only worked for a few hours. :(

Is there a way of programming the search function without referencing an ID for permenent searches like I'm trying to do?

E.g at vb there's:

Are there parameters I can call with the search function do find search for keywords in a forum?

The reason your searches disappear is down to the Scheduled Task that runs Cleanup.php. In our case we run it every hour.

There is a section in there that specifically deletes the contents of the Search table, for all searches with a timestamp at least 1 hour old.

Thus if you have specific searches that you wish to keep, you will need to exclude them from the SQL statement.

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cool, how do I do that?

Do I exclude some selected search ids? (can do)

Or do I do something else? And how do I do this? :/

You would need to amend the WHERE section of the statement, along the lines of

WHERE ... {existing stuff}
AND NOT searchid = nnn or nnn or nnn

but you would need to get a decent SQL coder to give you an efficient statement {It would take me quite a long while to figure it out}.

Need help! :D

So close yet so far... :(

You can also use a list of search terms after the ? Like:
You can also use the following keywords:

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that's cool, I can use query to put together the search I want, e.g.

But I don't want to go to the search screen, straight to the results!

NP at all ;) Add do=process to it, e.g.

Alex