Search for Posts in Thread by Username

<font size="3">Search for Posts in Thread by Username</font>

Description
Do you know that? You are searching for that one Post in a single Thread made by a specific User, but you can't remember the Text.
Unfortunately the Thread is several hundred Posts long - and the User has tons of Posts in the Forum that Thread belongs to.
So searching for Keywords in the Thread doesn't work, and searching for the Posts made by the User also doesn't help much.
This Hack solves the Problem by allowing you to search for Posts from a specific User made in a specific Thread.

Details
1 Plugin XML
1 Template Edit

History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1
vBulletin 3.5.2 compatibility

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

[buro9]

This is good... and so close to what I had hacked into 3.0.x

What I'm looking for is a search function that can be given a threadid and userid, not username. And that can be called from a GET query, such as search.php?threadid=123&userid=123 and then show the results as posts.

Where I put this is on the popup showing number of people who posted in a thread. I made the numbers clickable so that the opener window changed to show which posts they were.

That should be in vBulletin by default and is not.

But my question is... how could I adjust the hack to use userid, and what should be the URL I would need to see the results?

[EasyTarget]

How could I edit this so that the boxes are separated by a title? One box that says Username and one that says Keyword.

Like the hack that lets you search posts and titles.

[Andreas]

Just modify the Template as you like

[EasyTarget]

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="threadsearch_menu" style="display:none">
<form action="search.php" method="post">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$vbphrase[search_this_thread]<a name="goto_threadsearch"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
			<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
			<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
			<input type="hidden" name="searchthread" value="1" />
			<input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="1" />
			<input type="hidden" name="searchthreadid" value="$threadid" />
                        <if condition="$show['searchthreaduser']">
                        <div class="vbmenu_option">$vbphrase[username]:</div>
                        <input type="text" class="bginput" name="searchuser" size="20" /><br />
                        </if>
Keyword:<br>
			<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" />$gobutton<br />
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</form>
</div>

is there anything I should add or fix from this code so that its more correct? I changed the div class to vbmenu_option and I added the word 'keyword:'. Is there some other/better way to do this?

[The Wise One]

installed. thanks.

[buro9]

Is there a way to call this with a URL like:
search.php?threadid=XXX&userid=YYY

And have it show everything that someone has posted in a thread?

[cnutter]

I tried to install this but It didnt seem to work so what did I miss?

I made teh proper edit in the templet and installed the plugin any ideas?

[Andreas]

@buro9
Yes, it's possible.
do=process&searchthreadid=X&userid=Y

@cnutter
What exactly does not work?

[cnutter]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

@cnutter
What exactly does not work?

KirbyDE,

Maybe, I am not getting it but when I went to a forum to do a search in a very large thread on my site to test it I couldnt find/see the search field as show in your screen shot of the hack.

I maybe missing something.... :ermm:

[cnutter]

KirbyDE

I figured it out....

<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" />$gobutton<br />

There are two instances of this exact line in the SHOWTHREAD templet.

I had put it above the wrong one.

Its fixxed now.... thanx....