search string to search for all threads a user started ?

is there a search string which can allow you to search for all threads a particular user started only

http://animeboards.net/forums/search...user=$username

daily posts started by a user

http://animeboards.net/forums/search...user=$username

this searches for all threads a user replied to or posted in.

But can i only search for posts the user started ?

I know someone talked about something like this awhile ago. I seem to remember someone wanting to have a ratio under the username instead of total posts, something to show Topics Started/Total Posts or something like that
Don't know if anything ever came of it

thanks... i'll search harder using the search function

You could hack it in to search.php...

To get you started, you'd be editing this:

  if ($searchuser!="") {
    if ($exactname=="yes") {
      $checkuser="AND INSTR(userindex,' ".addslashes($searchuser)." ')>0";
    } else {
      $checkuser="AND INSTR(userindex,'".addslashes($searchuser)."')>0";
    }
  } else {
    $checkuser="";
  }

To resemble:

  if ($searchuser!="") {
    if ($threadstart=="yes") {
      if ($exactname=="yes") {
        $checkuser="AND thread.postusername = '".addslashes($searchuser)."'";
      } else {
        $checkuser="AND thread.postusername LIKE '%".addslashes($searchuser)."%'";
      }
    } else {
      if ($exactname=="yes") {
        $checkuser="AND INSTR(userindex,' ".addslashes($searchuser)." ')>0";
      } else {
        $checkuser="AND INSTR(userindex,'".addslashes($searchuser)."')>0";
      }
    }
  } else {
    $checkuser="";
  }

Then change the search template to have radio buttons for $threadstart...

Should be all!