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NCODE OPENSEARCH FOR VBULLETIN 3.6.0
version: 1.1 I. What does it do This plugin adds OpenSearch capabilities to you vBulletin board. OpenSearch is a standard defined by A9.com and defines a unified interface for search engines. The definitions are devided into four parts: - OpenSearch Description: defines an XML format for describing search services - OpenSearch Query Syntax: defines the query method and format, which is embedded in the OpenSearch Description file - OpenSearch Response: defines RSS and ATOM extensions to return machinereadable search results. - OpenSearch Query: defines a way of referring to a set of search results This plugin provides a OpenSearch Description file, and thus implements OpenSearch Description and OpenSeach Query Syntax. OpenSearch Response is not implemented, and might get implemented in a future update, when the demand is sufficient, and when vBulletin allows for an easy integration. This plugin is based around OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 3. The plugin adds an autodiscovery tag to the <head> section of all pages, as recommended by the OpenSearch Description specification. The current versions of the two largest browsers will support OpenSearch. Information about the Internet Explorer 7 implementation can be found on: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/07/527266.aspx Firefox 2 has supporting documents on: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...ns_for_Firefox Please note that you might run into the following bugs when using Firefox 2: OpenSearch: plugin not added if description not in utf-8 encoding https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357830 Work around this bug by not using non-UTF-8 characters in the bbtitle, description and keywords fields. Can't use remote search engine icons larger than 10KB https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361923 Don't use favicon.ico images larger than 10 KB. The default vBulletin icon is sized 9.9 KB and doesn't seem to work as well. However, this icon is a little bugged: it contains double data (see vB 3.6 bug #716). I have attached an improved favicon.ico with this plugin. More on OpenSearch in general can be found on: http://www.opensearch.org/ II. Installation Use the product manager in vBulletin to upload the XML file. III. Configuration All settings are read from your vBulletin settings. nCode OpenSearch makes use of the following settings: - bbtitle - description - keywords - webmasteremail - languagecode It also links to your favicon.ico image in the Description file. In the control panel you'll find fields to alter the SyndicationRight and AdultContent values of the OpenSearch Description file. The SyndicationRight value is currently useless, because is controls the OpenSearch Response part, which isn't implemented. It's provided for completeness. IV. Version history 1.1 (February 18th, 2007) - added correct content-type to XML files - secured the xml with CDATA sections - support for the mozilla specific moz:SearchForm tag - added notices about Firefox 2 bugs in the readme 1.0 (February 16th, 2007) - Fixed templates 1.0 beta 1 (June 20th, 2006) - First public release V. Copyright please keep in mind that: THIS IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE You are allowed to install this in your forum, and you are allowed to make suggestions for improvements. It is not allowed to redistribute the files in any other way than as a zipfile with the XML and this readme in original state. (c) 2006 nCode - www.ncode.nl - info@ncode.nl Below you can find screenshots from Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. Support site: http://www.ncode.nl/vbulletinplugins/ Like it? Please donate You can donate by PayPal: USD or EUR Show Your Support
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Aha, I see now. So that means a member with permission to view restricted forums, can not search those forums with this right?
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Nice. Is it possible to create a search engine for multiple vbulletin sites with this? To search them all with one search query? If so: how?
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I know. But would it be possible to somehow combine the results of the search.php from several sites?
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How do I get my site search to appear in the Firefox search plugin system as shown in your pictures?
Dutch Translation: Hoe krijg ik die zoekfunctie werkend in Firefox? |
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Are you using Firefox 2? It should be in the list if you click on the google icon to the left of the search field
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I've clicked the Google button but nothing appears that seems to have affiliation with my site?? I use firefox 2.0.0.1
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Can you give me a link to your forum?
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<a href="http://www.xboxforum.nl" target="_blank">http://www.xboxforum.nl</a>
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