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)

[ColinP]

How does Boardtracker handle private forums?

We have a number of forums hidden from unregistered users and we'd want these indexed as well.

[h_kakashi]

Originally Posted by TRR

I really like this search engine, but I really dislike that when users click the "New Posts" link in the Navbar, it redirects to a search page and doesn't display posts that the user has not yet read. This is one of my board's most used features so I had to disable boardtracker search so that my users could have the "New Posts" link work the way it is supposed to. Is there an easy fix for this? I really want to turn boardtracker back on...

I have a very large board and this would be a sticking point for me too.
Will definately consider installation if this issue is resolved.

[Blackhat]

I'm also using GARS on some forums, how do I add the tag fields on this plugin ?

[farooqaaa]

downloading/installing....

interesting one

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by TRR

I really like this search engine, but I really dislike that when users click the "New Posts" link in the Navbar, it redirects to a search page and doesn't display posts that the user has not yet read. This is one of my board's most used features so I had to disable boardtracker search so that my users could have the "New Posts" link work the way it is supposed to. Is there an easy fix for this? I really want to turn boardtracker back on...

Depends how you set it up - if you block users from accessing the vb search completely (by usergroup) then that will also block 'todays posts' which also uses the vb search script.. if you dont block it then users can still access vb search from the 'advanced search' link and from todays posts etc. - only the default search box in the navbar will use bt search.

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by ColinP

How does Boardtracker handle private forums?

We have a number of forums hidden from unregistered users and we'd want these indexed as well.

Private forums are not spidered by default but they can be if you want them spidered - just let us know. You can also control exactly which forums we spider using the robots.txt file which is explained on our site. Also you get a control panel on BT which lists all your forums before they are spidered so you can easily seee if there are any you dont want spidered or any we missed that you do want spidered.

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

I'm also using GARS on some forums, how do I add the tag fields on this plugin ?

What is GARS?

We also have a tag search mod here..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=128642

[ShiningArcanine]

Is there any chance that this could be made compliant with the XHTML 1.1 Transitional specification? This modification is currently incompliant with it, which has kept me from using it on my forums since version 1.0.1 of the modification.

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by ShiningArcanine

Is there any chance that this could be made compliant with the XHTML 1.1 Transitional specification? This modification is currently incompliant with it, which has kept me from using it on my forums since version 1.0.1 of the modification.

The search mod renders the page dynamically by fetching the results (via the member's browser) from BoardTracker and rendering it into the web page.

There is no relevancy at all in this case to support XHTML, since the data is not there on page load but only after the JS scripts finished running.
Having said that, most of the mod is XHTML compliant (even though as we said, it makes no difference) and the only part that isn't is the part where the dynamic scripts use the internal HTML template for rendering.

I am interested in knowing though, why would such a thing stop you from using the mod?

[edtrigger]

awesome add-on!!

I've installed the product, and runs so far so good.
the only thing is that no board submission reply to me yet.

can't wait to see everything setup on my site!!

my site : http://www.kenlu.ent