Boolean Search in Search Drop-Down Menu Option in Navbar

Boolean Search in Search Drop-Down Menu Option in Navbar
[Should work in all vB 3.5.x versions]

All Thanks To Jake Bunce, vBulletin Team

Context: I was wondering, how could we set up the boolean search as the default option for quick search from serach drop-down menu

Installation Instructions:

Originally Posted by Jake Bunce

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> ? ? -> Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates -> navbar



Find this code, add the red code:

    <if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">

    <!-- header quick search form -->

    <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_search_menu" style="display:none">

        <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

        <tr>

            <td class="thead">$vbphrase[search_forums]</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">

            <form action="search.php" method="post">

                <input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />

                <input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="0" />

                <input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" />

                <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

                <input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="1" />

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

            </form>

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a></td>

        </tr>

        </table>

    </div>

    <!-- / header quick search form -->

    </if>

That should do it.

Thats All folks, Enjoy!!

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[Boofo]

2 things:

Can you please post a text file for this?

And, what is "Boolean Search?"

[Snake]

That's what I'm wondering too. lol

[AN-net]

boolearn search is where you can specify that certain words are more important than others or to skip entries containing certain words. or if two words are to be consectutive. it goes with full text searching.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by AN-net

boolearn search is where you can specify that certain words are more important than others or to skip entries containing certain words. or if two words are to be consectutive. it goes with full text searching.

I guess I've never played with that feature. How would you do it?

[AN-net]

<a href="http://www.mysql.com" target="_blank">www.mysql.com</a> has a great documentation this. you would use a "+" sign in front of words you want to appear in a search and a "-" sign in front of words you do not want your results to include. example:
+vbulletin -.org
that would yield all results with vbulletin but no results containing .org

[Tulsa]

I like the idea of being able to search for phrases instead of just key words but for some reason I am not seeing the "red" code you're speaking of. I've looked at this thread with both "Firefox" on a Mac and IE on a PC and nothing is coming up red or any other color for that matter.

[ShadowOne]

yah i dont see the red code....

[shovel]

Originally Posted by ShadowOne

yah i dont see the red code....

Me either. But after comparison.

Add:

<input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="1" />

After:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

Under:

<!-- header quick search form -->

Hope that helps. Enjoy.

Ps.
It might make it a little better on you, Neutral Singh, if you add the definition of Boolean and Boolean Searching to your first post, that way you don't have to constantly explain. Good hack though, I didn't even know it existed in the form. Nice job.

[J0iN]

Great Work