Group search results / new posts?

[Defkalion]

I'm quite surprised that there isn't a mod that groups the search results (and of course new posts). At least I couldn't find any here.

Anyone care to share if this is easy to implement? The end result would be just to group any search results (including new posts) by forum.

[Lynne]

You don't need a mod. Just add "&sortby=forum" to the end of the search url.

[Defkalion]

Thankyou for the answer, but I was more talking about a method to actually group the results, not just sort them.

So grouping the results would mean that the list of threads would appear below a header that states the forum they come from. For example:

ForumA: (you click on it and the threads list appear)

Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3

ForumB: (you click on it and the threads list appear)

Thread 5
Thread 7
Thread 9


so basically in the results you have a list of the forums in the beginning, not the actual threads. When you click on each forum, you get the threads displayed.