Miscellaneous Hacks - Quick search pre-populated results: give your visitors quick thread suggestions

Product video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUq4Z6R7xI

This product integrates with the quicksearch drop down box in NAVBAR; and suggests popular threads while the visitor is typing in search keywords.

Read INSTRUCTIONS.txt for installation instructions.

NOTICE: To fine-tune and configure "relevancy threshold" you must edit /includes/cron/autocomplete-generate.php file. Default installation assumes you have a big discussion forums and suggests only threads which have more than 1000 replies or 1000 views. Edit this number, the query looks like this:

PHP Code:

// This query needs to be customized on a per site basis
$ac_sql = "SELECT * FROM ". TABLE_PREFIX ."thread where threadid between ".$startat." AND ".$endat." AND (views > 1000 OR replycount > 1000) AND visible = '1' ORDER by views DESC"; 


[funkmeister]

Originally Posted by ctrlbrk

Hi, this looks fantastic --- except it is not working for me. I ran into no problems or errors, but my search box results are unchanged.

Same here. Followed instructions to the letter. No errors at all. But search box is just as before.

I did lower the number from 1000 to reflect fewer replies and views on my site, but other than that. Just as per the instructions.

Any suggestions?

[Zaivndotcom]

When I ran sheduled task manager, it appeared that. Help me plz

Refreshes autocomplete data

The file /autocomplete/data_1251538806.txt is not writable

[RvG2]

try to CHMOD it to 777

[Zaivndotcom]

Maybe I placed the dirctory autocomplete in the wrong place, cause i don't understand much about this sentence

Create writeable directory outside of publicly accessible forum root directory called "autocomplete"

Example: /var/www/autocomplete

Plz tell me exactly where I should create this folder

[NAZIA]

goody.. will test it ASAP...

[WildWeb]

Thanks for this fine work. Seems to be working fine for me.

Question - the autosearch only seems to populate with matches/suggestions when I am in a sub-forum itself and not from Forum Home or any other place on the site. Is this the default behavior or is there something I can change to have it "autocomplete/suggest" topics from anywhere on the site?

[ctrlbrk]

Is the author going to provide support for this?

Mike

[Hornstar]

nah, it looks like it is currently not supported by the author, but I am still really glad they shared it. I am currently about to enable the function on my server that was disabled (due to the tightened security on my server)

[goyo]

I've followed word by word and enabled the system and exec execution in php.ini...unfortunately the cron job doesn't write anything to data.txt (although it creates the file with 0 byte).

We have our own dedicated servers but the hack doesn't work

[ibautocommunity]

Originally Posted by goyo

I've followed word by word and enabled the system and exec execution in php.ini...unfortunately the cron job doesn't write anything to data.txt (although it creates the file with 0 byte).

We have our own dedicated servers but the hack doesn't work

Try chmodding the directory and/or the data file 777; it's either not writeable or the server does not have support for "sed".