Miscellaneous Hacks - 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)

[Boofo]

I just tried searching as a guest and got no db errors of any kind. It is working as designed. I did, however, update this hack as it was not showing Guest as the searchee name when a guest had searched.

@ TundraSoul - Try uploading a fresh search.php and enabling this product and see if maybe something else is going on with it. If you have guests set to not be able to view forums, turn the searching off as it will not do them any good anyways.

I cannot reproduce the problem you are having, sorry.

[TundraSoul]

I did that last night. My settings were set to allow Guests to search forums but they're unable to read the content of any threads. So their search results ended up with nothing. If they tried Advanced Search, they would get a dB error that I shown in this thread.

As a fix, I disabled the Search ability for Guests, since they cannot see anything anyway.

Originally Posted by Boofo

I just tried searching as a guest and got no db errors of any kind. It is working as designed. I did, however, update this hack as it was not showing Guest as the searchee name when a guest had searched.

@ TundraSoul - Try uploading a fresh search.php and enabling this product and see if maybe something else is going on with it. If you have guests set to not be able to view forums, turn the searching off as it will not do them any good anyways.

I cannot reproduce the problem you are having, sorry.

[bi11i]

I'm getting

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on download...

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

I did that last night. My settings were set to allow Guests to search forums but they're unable to read the content of any threads. So their search results ended up with nothing. If they tried Advanced Search, they would get a dB error that I shown in this thread.

As a fix, I disabled the Search ability for Guests, since they cannot see anything anyway.

Ok, now it makes more sense what is happening. Do you have a hack installed for not being able to view thread contents?

@bi11i - It is there now.

[TundraSoul]

No hacks at all. In vB3.5 Gold, under Forum Viewing Permissions there's now an option to disallow a usergroup from viewing the thread content. So for instance you can let them see the thread listing, (Can View Others' Threads) but not actually read the posts (Can View Thread Content).

Originally Posted by Boofo

Ok, now it makes more sense what is happening. Do you have a hack installed for not being able to view thread contents?

@bi11i - It is there now.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

No hacks at all. In vB3.5 Gold, under Forum Viewing Permissions there's now an option to disallow a usergroup from viewing the thread content. So for instance you can let them see the thread listing, (Can View Others' Threads) but not actually read the posts (Can View Thread Content).

Ok, I'll look into getting something in there for a check for this in case anyone else ever runs into it. I guess I never paid much attention to it as I don't allow guests to search and wouldn't think of allowing them if they can't view any threads anyway.

You might want to click install if I come up with an update for this.

[Unexplained.tv]

This plugin is not stable, has several issues- don't install this until it is fixed. You have been warned.

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by Unexplained

This plugin is not stable, has several issues- don't install this until it is fixed. You have been warned.

What do you mean, I have used it without any issues :surprised:

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Unexplained

This plugin is not stable, has several issues- don't install this until it is fixed. You have been warned.

And what fix would that be? Do you have any idea what you are even talking about? It doesn't sound like it.

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Unexplained

This plugin is not stable, has several issues- don't install this until it is fixed. You have been warned.

I highly doubt you even have tried this plugin - Please use constructive criticism if at all

If you are having technical issues with this plugin, please respond to the thread with your errors - You may find that you have an interfering plugin/modification that renders this one defunct...

Chris