Find Topic: Existing Topics Check

A permitted port of https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59940

Originally Posted by Velocd

This hack will allow you and your members to check for existing topics, or similar ones, of the thread you plan to create when at newthread.php. This should help to prevent double topics that often appear from newbish members who neglect to use the search feature. It uses the exact functions as the "similar threads" feature, therefore has the same accuracy.

Screenshot: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=15629

Thanks to Velocd for permitting the port. :up:

Velocd's Signature (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=9503):

My OpenSource (as in do with them what you want no need to ask for permission) Scripts: 7/25/04 ? Article Bot 1.1, vB3 Member Album 2.0, BB Code Functions, Advanced Search w/Member Conditions, Eggdrop IRC Manager, IRC Manager for mIRC, Existing Topics Check

02 Feb 2006: fixed to prevent Array bit from showing atop the popup display results page
29 Jan 2006: some JavaScript tweaks to get this to work for Turkish and other languages
28 Jan 2006: fixed duplicate JavaScript function name causing Manage Attachments issue
28 Jan 2006: initial release of port

[bashy]

read post #5

Originally Posted by klaush

Mhhh, thanks, but does not work here with the threadprefixes- 3.5.3.

Any idea?

[bashy]

Help....

My manage attchments button now shows similar threads pmsl
oh well, all was fine

Whats ya thoughts calorie?

[Zelda-King]

Manage Attachments issue confirmed.

[GlitterKill]

Very nice! Installed.

Is there a way to change number of results when listing the threads? I would like it to show 10 instead of 5. Thanks for the nice hack!

[bashy]

You change this in the findtopic.php that you uploaded

// ######################### SET LIMIT NUMBER ############################
$limit = 5;  // Represents the max results to show.

I presume, i aint no coder thats for sure :nervous:

Originally Posted by GlitterKill

Very nice! Installed.

Is there a way to change number of results when listing the threads? I would like it to show 10 instead of 5. Thanks for the nice hack!

[calorie]

FYI: fixed duplicate JavaScript function name causing Manage Attachments issue

Re-install the XML product, allowing overwrite, and if you're using 'thread prefixes' reapply the change.

To add text by the icon, look for ft_search_for_existing_topics in the Find Topic newthread_form_complete plugin.

[GlitterKill]

Outstanding! Thanks for the quick response and the time saving hack.

EDIT // I changed that number to 10 in the file but it still shows only 5.

[bashy]

Nice 1 calorie...Well done

I have not found any more issues with regards to this hack, all is working well thanks you!

[GlitterKill]

Were you able to change the results number?

[calorie]

Thanks for the thanks.

Five is the max you can get unless you go edit the fetch_similar_threads function in the /forum/includes/functions_search.php file and replace LIMIT 5 with LIMIT 10 (two spots inside the function) and then use $limit = 10; in the findtopic.php file.

Without the two edits to the fetch_similar_threads function in the functions_search.php file, $limit is good for zero to five. Anything less than zero would break the query, and without file edits anything over five gets ignored.