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 switch the boardtracker search mod on or off at any time 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. For example you could set it to "site:yourdomain.com blah" and it will display all threads from your board about "blah"

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. 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 global so results come from all boards in boardtracker (since there are no actual posts on the demo board to search )

Also check out our topic tagging mod with cool tag clouds here

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
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


We also have a version for vB3.6 here..
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123862



updates:
v2.0.1 - fixed 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 - updated for new BoardTracker 2010. To upgrade, upload searchbt.php, install xml, minor template edits (param names)

[VaaKo]

I still don't get what boardtracker does

[BoardTracker]

BoardTracker is a search engine for boards.. also we provide email & IM alerts on threads matching your search terms and various other nifty features.

In the case of this mod it is basically a drop in replacement for the built in vb search which means you can provide your users with a good search system without any load on your servers.

[vampireus]

Does it support non-English characters?

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by vampireus

Does it support non-English characters?

Yes.

[Snake]

Thanks man!

[Mr Chad]

Holy shit this owns. Now i can integrate all my sites results

[vampireus]

I visit your demo site and it take me forever to load " Loading search results.." for a keyword "iPod" from "A week ago"

I make a search from my board, with global board search ON, and it take me forever to load " Loading search results.." too

If I choose to show results from my site only, BoardTracker Search Mod can't find anything until my board get indexed by BoardTracker?

I'm still confused about this.

[BoardTracker]

To show results from your board it needs to be indexed by boardtracker, we just added your board and sent you email with instructions on how to complete the process - let us know if you didn't get the email.

Results should be fast, allowing for a slight delay to pull results from a remote location rather than local but usually that shouldn't be noticable. If you still find it slow please ping and traceroute to boardtracker.com from your home pc and send us (email or PM) the response so we can check it further.

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by chatbum

Holy shit this owns. Now i can integrate all my sites results

Yep. :banana: