Search-Engine Listing (Dynamic)

I've created an alternative hack to the existing one which generated lots of little files. This one's a lot less system intensive and it doesn't involve static files, which means that you save A LOT of web space.

However, this will only work on Linux systems. (contact me if you have access to your httpd.conf on another OS, and I'll make code alterations for it to work)

Ed and I tested this (thanks a bunch, Ed!) and everything seems to be working great!

Check out his archive at:
http://www.magic-singles.com/cpa/forums/search.php3

Directly in the vB directory, create an .htaccess containing:

<Files search>
DirectoryIndex search
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Files>

Then, create a file called "search" in the vB directory containing:

<?
$searcharray=explode("/",$REQUEST_URI);
$searchcount=count($searcharray);

$spec = $searchcount - 1;

$threadid = $searcharray[$spec];
require("showthread.php");
?>

Finally, create a file in your existing vB directory called search.php3 containing:

<?
require("global.php");

mysql_pconnect($server,$user,$password);
mysql_select_db($database);

$threads=$DB_site->query("SELECT threadid,title FROM thread WHERE visible=1 ORDER BY lastpost DESC");
while ($threadarray = $DB_site->fetch_array($threads)) {
$threadid = $threadarray["threadid"];
$title = $threadarray["title"];
print "<a href=\"search/$threadid\">$title</a><br>\n";
}
?>

Finally, create a line in the cssinclude section of the CP which reads:

<base href="http://yoursite.com/forums/">

and replace yoursite.com/forums/ with the domain + directory that vB is located in.

All should work well!

I just don't see the logic behind that if the spiders will cycle through all the links anyways...

From what I have read spiders will dislike links pages with that many links....

But does this bog down the message boards when a web crawler hits the list of messages? Seems like each link is a call to vB (rather than just sucking up an html file).

Each link is a call to vB, but it'd be much more system intensive to force html file generation.

Remember: with the previous method, its calling an HTML file which is THEN calling vB.

okay after applying a few hacks i think i want to get this in to my forum as well...

so is it the first 2 posts of this thread all i need to do... the original code and instructions added with Ed's correction in the showthreads.php file ?

Then, create a file called "search" in the vB directory containing:

<?
$searcharray=explode("/",$REQUEST_URI);
$searchcount=count($searcharray);

$spec = $searchcount - 1;

$threadid = $searcharray[$spec];
require("showthread.php");
?>

i am confused the file called search , what extension on the file ?

search.* ?

No extension whatsoever

Just "search"

oh... thanks. sort of had me confused for a moment

One thing that can be used to slow down the spidering of these pages so to not cause problems is to have them have a dynamic page extention such as .php or .shtml this will let most spiders know that they should go slower in their spider..

-Brian

this is old but i am having problems....

http://animeboards.net/forums/search.php3

if i put the htaccess file in i get a 500 error, if i leave it out when i click a thread from the search results it redirects to my front page ?