Add a Separate Page to your Forum to search Last XX Days

This is a simple hack.
What is does is adds a new page to your forum to allow the user to view posts by the last xx number of days. What's different in this hack is that we don't replace the "get daily function" (which has been the big hurdle with this type of hack).

This only adds a new php page that can be linked to from anywhere in the forum to search by the last xx days.

Very simple to do and install time is about 10 minutes and should work with all later versions of vb.

Here is a working online example -Day Search .

In my version it just creates a text link to the day search page the we create (from instructions) where the user can search from the last xx days. Simple and easy enough.

Credits go to c-pr0mpt and the search days hack by Vincent "MW" Chan who created two hacks which I modified into one to suit my needs.

***pretty easy hack just requires some php pages to be changed and a few template changes****

Mike

ps...instructions are in html format

please note- this hack has been updated on May 4, 2003 to include suggestions in the threads below

[indiamike]

Thanks for the additions to this jschefdog. I have updated the original release (bringing it back from the dead) and have incorporated your changes into it.

Thanks

Mike

[sraposa]

i too want to thank you for putting it together. bravo! it was exactly what we needed given that the vB algorithm for tracking read/unread posts is way screwy and cannot be relied upon.

i called the feature "View Recent Posts" and i included a link to it right next to "View New Posts" on the home page. and although i kept it as a seperate page, i did a little more integration on the regular Search page.

if any one wants to take a peek...

home page: http://www.karma-lab.com/forum
search page: http://www.karma-lab.com/forum/search.php
view recent posts (hack) page: http://www.karma-lab.com/forum/viewrecent.php

-scott

[indiamike]

Excellent job Scott and a real nice forum.

Cheers
Mike

[sraposa]

thanks, mike.

also, i just realized that my "Sort By" options weren't working because i had replaced the wrong line in search2.php. the current instructions read:

Next Find: (somewhere between lines 530 to 540 depending on version of vb)

which is actually above the "$days = $daysoption;". not sure about older versions, but in vB2.3.0, the line that needs to get replaced for the sort is just a few lines below the "$days = $daysoption;". and both lines are in the "Get Start Daily" section (which i discovered from jschefdog's post.).

so, at least for 2.3.0, the instructions would be much less prone to errors if they said something like: "go to the ## Get Start Daily ## section. replace the $days = 1 line with... replace the eval() line with ..."

just a suggestion.

thanks again.
-scott

[Thoki]

Hello,
I´d installed zhis nice hack into my vB2.3 and now I updated to vB3.
What happened? My users are screaming: Where ist the search page?? Is it lost? :-)
So, can anybody tell me how to port this to vB3?

Greets Thoki.

[Carter876]

Yeah, I would to know if this nice hack is applicable to VBulletin 3.0.0 !

Regards

[jschefdog]

I just posted what I believe is a way to do this version 3. See the thread Search All Posts From Date (Day Search)