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!

[EvilHawk]

It appears to have stopped working on 3.5.3!
It was a very usefull add on for our users!
Could you please update this product?

TIA

[EasyTarget]

yeah, I just uninstalled and reinstalled to test it and it looks like the search thread for posts by user ends up finding all the posts by the user, in other threads too.

[Andreas]

Seems to work fine for me on 3.5.3

[EvilHawk]

Uninstall and reinstall solved the problem!

Thank you sir!

[fridayweb]

Couldn't get this to work in 3.6.

I see you can do it through advanced search, but I didn't know if this was hack was going to be updated or not.

[Tralala]

Works for me with 3.6.4.

[RedGTiVR6]

Originally Posted by mini2

That's the only difference, just broke it up a little and I felt made it a little clearer for the average user. But yours I thought was fine too.

Create a phrase as follows:

Product: Search for Post in thread by User name
Varname: and_or_keywords (or whatever you please)
Text: And/Or Keywords
Phrase Type: GLOBAL

In template SHOWTHREAD find:

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

Add below:

			   <if condition="$show['searchthreaduser']">
   <div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[username]:</div>
   <input type="text" class="bginput" name="searchuser" size="20" />$gobutton<br />
   </if>
   <div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[and_or_keywords]:</div>
   <input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" />$gobutton<br />

With the phrase and template edit as above, it will look like the attached image. You can omit the 'Go' button as necessary and change the and/or keywords as you see necessary to fit your board.

btw - appears to work fine on 3.6.5

[RedGTiVR6]

Originally Posted by Andreas

That's almost as I got it (except the And/Or). Isn't that how the template edit instructions are?

No - the template instructions make it so that there is nothing telling users what the seond box is for now. While those who are very familiar with vBulletin would know, those who aren't might now understand.

btw- mod installed! Very nice feature!

[goxy63]

I am sorry to bring up this mod/thread again
But is there such thing for vb4, something like we have here at vb.org???(search this mod/find my posts)

I know that from advanced serach we have this option, but by my humble experience not even 5% users would use that