Add-On Releases - BoardTracker Search Mod v2 - a full search engine for your board!

BoardTracker Search Mod - Version 2

This search hack replaces the built in vb search with boardtracker search and results are fully integrated with your board. Search results can be threads from your board or all boards or a select group of boards - your choice!

Once installed, search from the search box on any page will pull results from boardtracker and display them within your board. 'Advanced Search' can still link to the existing vb search script or you can disable or restrict access to specific users (ie. admins, mods, paying members etc).

Results can be formated in any way you want with some simple template variables.

Options control panel allows you to easily switch the boardtracker search mod on or off so you can switch between boardtracker and vb search whenever you want.

The following configuration options/defaults exist:

Switch search on/off

Switch 'safe filter' on/off

Switch global search option on/off

Board ID - you can limit search to just your board, or several boards you choose or ALL boards indexed by boardtracker.

Category ID - you can define a category on boardtracker and searches will only pull results from that category.

Default Sort Order - you can sort results by relevancy or by post date.

Default Search Scope - results can be limited to last day, week, month, year or all time.

Default Search Query - a search term that will be executed whenever the boardtracker search script is called directly with no params.

Find Posts By User - replace the search links on user profiles and postbits.

Internal vB Search Allowed Usergroups - specify which usergroups are allowed to still use the built in vb search (search.php) and redirect all others to the bt search (searchbt.php). Leave empty to allow all users to still access search.php


User selections on the search form override the defaults.

The mod is very easy to install and consists of 1 php script to upload, 1 product xml file to install, 1 simple template edit plus some optional template edits. The xml product file creates one new template, an options panel and a few phrases.

You can see a demo here which has the search set to another board for demo purposes (since there are no actual posts on the demo board to search )

If your board is not yet indexed by BoardTracker, make sure to submit it!


## New features in version 2..

Search posts by username
Search in specific forums
Search in related forums
Search by boardtracker category
RSS feed and alerts for searches
Global search option
Works with bad words search filter
Block or restrict the built in search to specific usergroups
More integration with vb search links (such as from member profile)
More widgets in the control panel to play with



updates:
v2.0.1 - fixed small typo in one phrase setting
v2.0.2 - fixed bug in searchbt.php affecting some people. To upgrade, just upload the new searchbt.php, no other action required.
v2.0.3 - minor html change in templates - not a required upgrade
v2.0.4 - update to searchbt.php
v2.0.5 - small change to 'stopwords' in search_boardtracker template
v2.0.6 - added adv=1 to advanced search link (in plugin) to open search options automatically. Simplified navbar template edits (needed if installing tags mod also). Added 'search this forum' edits.
v2.0.7 - updated for new BoardTracker 2010. To upgrade, upload searchbt.php, install xml, minor template edits (param names)

[BoardTracker]

For anyone using this search mod who wants to try it with the new system, you can do that now.. but bear in mind it should be considered BETA and not all data on your board will be indexed or up to date and not all boards submitted are yet included although at least twice as many boards are now in the new system and more will be added soon.

The way to try it is simply to edit the bt search results template and replace this..

http://www.boardtracker.com/search-v2.js

with this..

http://v2.boardtracker.com/search-v3.js

Additionally you can add the following html somewhere near the search term input box..

<input type="checkbox" name="oplimit" id="BT_OPLIMIT" /> Original posts only

This adds a checkbox for choosing to search in all posts (replies) or original posts only (threads). You can of course change the text to whatever you want.

There are some additional changes you can make which enable access to many more search features however they will be announced later.

If you have any problems let me know and again I must stress that this is beta and so there *might* be problems (hopefully nothing more than simply partial coverage) but these will be fixed and coverage is increasing daily - currently we index many millions of posts every day.

puertoblack2003 - haven't been able to replicate your problem yet, perhaps a version issue between vb, this mod and maybe some other mods we have installed on our test system. Will try some more versions on a clean system soon though and hopefully get that issue fixed for you.

[Kaelon]

BoardTracker no longer appears to be actively indexing boards. Is this correct?

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by Kaelon

BoardTracker no longer appears to be actively indexing boards. Is this correct?

We are still actively indexing boards - all boards newly added to boardtracker are now indexed here.. http://v2.boardtracker.com

The v1 system also still runs and indexes boards that were previously added there.

[randy17875]

Just a quick question on the software itself. Looks like a nice mod but when I was looking at the boardtracker site I couldn't find any TOS. Is it just hard to find on the site?

[BoardTracker]

You can find info about BoardTracker here: http://v2.boardtracker.com/cgi-bin/about.pl
Other than that, you can ask anything here on the forum or through BoardTracker's support email.

[webrats]

ive submited my board many times and still its not indexed. ive resubmitted many times over the years