[lrshelby]

Thank you very much for the information. :up: I will experiment and see what I can come up with. Again, thank you.
RS

Automerged Update 01/30/2007
I guess I don't really understand how to string the URL together. I’m getting nothing but HTTP 404 Not Found errors. I can’t even put together a basic search. Maybe I’m lost in the syntax of it all but also, how does vB check for permissions to do these searches. If you’re just typing the url into the browser how does it know if you are allowed to make that search? I’ve tried numerous different possibilities and got nothing but error messages. Can you give me an example?

Also, can you use the same variable twice? In my case I would be looking to use the beforeafter variable twice. Once to specify the after date and the second time to specify the before date.


Automerged Update 10:14am 01/31/2007
Ok, I'm slowly getting things figured out but I need a bit more help.

The information you gave is great because now I realize that I can put together some "canned" forum searches that my users might like but my original goal was to search for users, not a list of threads or posts. So, instead of...

http://www.yourforums/search.php?do=process

I think I need to use...

http://www.yourforums.com/forums/admincp/user.php?do=find

And I guess the answer to my permissions question is that the permissions issues are handled because the search originates from the admincp.

Now, my question is, what are the variables for user searches? You listed all those variables for forum searches but now I need to know what the variables are for user searches so that I can set them properly and get the user list I am looking for. Do you have a list of the variables that you could post?