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)

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Boofo

First post updated with fixed and working version.

Kick ass, I'll try this now! Thanks so much for the fix, Boofo!

[Brinnie]

BEHOLD!

For it is none ofther than I, Brinnie, of whom shalt be thy one to install thine plugin, YARRRRRRRRRGH!

[Brinnie]

Okay, so you know that 'dead space' in the middle?
I was wondering if it was possible to show some more search criteria in that space:

1) One would be to show the username of who they tried to look up.

2) Not as important as the first one, but another idea would be to show if it was a title seach... If not, I guess it could just show nothing. Or better yet, under Results instead of sayin that it's "125 threads" it could say "125 thread titles found".

Moving right along...

ACP controlls with Yes/No boxes for each search criteria. For instance:
Can view time of search? Yes/No
Can view Searchee? Yes/No
Show the forums they searched? Yes/No

Or you could just bundle all of the extra search criteria into 1 and call it game for admins/staff. You know, n00bs and stuff dont need that much, but a sharp moderator could benefit from extra criteria.


And I don't really need all of this, I'm just a would-be inventor.
But for the first one, it would be nice to know if someone is looking you up.

[Mathiau]

trying this baby out!!

[Cyricx]

Hmmm, hard to tell from the screenshots, but I'm guessing this is supposed to show on the search.php page?

I've installed the product on RC2 but I'm not seeing the box at all.

[Boofo]

Try making a search and when it shows after that, run right back here and ... please click the install button!

[Cyricx]

LOL, hey.. it's friday...

/me clicks install!

[Boofo]

hehe

Thank you.

[hardgainer]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Try making a search and when it shows after that, run right back here and ... please click the install button!

It shows up searches that I make myself, but not what my members are searching for.

I know that they must be searching because when I do a Whos Online it shows a good bunch of them as Searching Forums.

Either that or they are just sitting staring at the search page

Anyone else have this problem?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by hardgainer

It shows up searches that I make myself, but not what my members are searching for.

I know that they must be searching because when I do a Whos Online it shows a good bunch of them as Searching Forums.

Either that or they are just sitting staring at the search page

Anyone else have this problem?

They might be searching for words that aren't there. Or not in forums they have access to. And remember, the search table gets emptied hourly.