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optilude
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 Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject: Gentoo forums search: smart bookmark and topics |
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Hey,
I added a gentoo forums smart bookmark to galeon, with the URL: https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_keywords=%s. That works, but it displays the results as *posts*, not topics - and that's just messy. Is there anything I can append to that query string to make it display topics instead of posts?
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Yama
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| I have been wondering that myself. I have tried examining the search.php file and appending variables (like &mode=results&show_results=topics) to the URL from there, but they don't seem to do anything. |
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Owiber
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 2:38 am Post subject: |
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Looks like some of the parameters (noteably: show_results) MUST be sent to the script via POST instead of GET.
This is how I got around it.
Made a script called gentoosearch.cgi :
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print '<html><body onLoad=document.form1.submit()>';
print '<form name=form1 action=http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?mode=results method=POST>';
foreach $param ($query->param) {
print "<input type=hidden name=$param value=\"" . $query->param($param) . "\">\n";
}
print ' </form></body></html>';
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And uploaded that to my website. Then make this your smart bookmark URL:
http://www.YOURWEBSITEHERE.com/cgi-bin/gentoosearch.cgi?search_keywords=%s&search_terms=all&show_results=topics
There may be better ways of doing this, but that's how I did it. Now that you know the problem is the POST thing, perhaps someone could share a more elegant solution.  |
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dma
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:19 am Post subject: |
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This is the code responsible:
| Code: | | $show_results = ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results']) ) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results'] : 'posts'; |
No way around it that I can see. |
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Yama
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:08 am Post subject: It works! |
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| Owiber wrote: |
This is how I got around it.
Made a script called gentoosearch.cgi |
Thanks Owiber! Your solution worked well. It's a shame that this needs to be done with a cgi, but what matters is that it works. |
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bobby_j
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:43 am Post subject: Re: It works! |
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| Yama wrote: | | Owiber wrote: |
This is how I got around it.
Made a script called gentoosearch.cgi |
Thanks Owiber! Your solution worked well. It's a shame that this needs to be done with a cgi, but what matters is that it works. |
maybe not entirely better, but at least for my own purposes better... i reproduced the same script in php.
Hope somebody needs it like this. put this in a "gentoosearch.php":
| Code: | <html><body onLoad=document.form1.submit()>
<form name=form1 action=http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?mode=results method=POST>
<?
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
echo "<input type=hidden name=$key value=\"$value\">";
}
?>
</form></body></html> |
and do just like the above cgi example:
http://www.YOURWEBSITEHERE.com/cgi-bin/gentoosearch.cgi?search_keywords=%s&search_terms=all&show_results=topics
OR if you use Konqueror, you can make a webshortcut.. replace the %s with a \{@}
okie.. have fun. :)
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Yama
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| forums.gentoo.org is now dove.gentoo.org. The above scripts need to be edited accordingly in order to work. |
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ian!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Yama wrote: | | forums.gentoo.org is now dove.gentoo.org. |
It's still forums.gentoo.org. The IP changed.. that's true.
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drjimmy42
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: gentoo forums firefox quicksearch url |
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I am trying to write a quicksearch url to have firefox search the gentoo forums. Similar to the google quicksearch
| Code: | | http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s |
where you can just type
and it goes and searches. I got this far but every search shows up as if I selected "posts" in the advanced search dialog instead of topics like I want. I have the topics argument in the url. Does anyone else have this working or know what I"m doing wrong? Thanks
| Code: | | http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_terms=all&show_results=topics&search_keywords=%s |
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R!tman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Why don't you use the one provided by firefox ?
You can find it by clicking on the arrow and choose "Add Engines..." From there you click on "Find lots of other search engines..." There you simply search for "Gentoo". Voila!
Do all that as root to install these search engines system wide. |
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drjimmy42
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| R!tman wrote: | | Why don't you use the one provided by firefox ? |
That would be perfect!
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You can find it by clicking on the arrow and choose "Add Engines..." From there you click on "Find lots of other search engines..." There you simply search for "Gentoo". Voila!
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I'm sorry, to what arrow are you referring?[/quote] |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Merged three posts from Portage & Programming.
Maybe ian! knows if there is a (security?) reason that makes phpbb insist on POST values for post vs. topic display. |
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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The arrow next to the label of the search engine on the right hand side of the address bar... (on the standard layout of firefox when first installed...)
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R!tman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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I think a moderator just moved your post when I wrote back... I will delete the other one.
So, here it is again.
| drjimmy42 wrote: | | I'm sorry, to what arrow are you referring? |
Sorry, I meant the arrow right next to the icon inside the quick search field. ie, right of the standart google "G".
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damn, what wrong with the forum? This is not the original question. All four or so posts have you been pasted somewhere else.
This is NOT good moderating....
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| R!tman wrote: |
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damn, what wrong with the forum? This is not the original question. All four or so posts have you been pasted somewhere else.
This is NOT good moderating....
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Looks like you didn't read the thread and are confused by the merge-thread functionality. There is not much more I can do than leaving a shadow topic in the old forum and posting a notice about the merge. Merging threads is an alternative that's sometimes better than moving to dups. |
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R!tman
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Earthwings wrote: | | R!tman wrote: |
[edit]
damn, what wrong with the forum? This is not the original question. All four or so posts have you been pasted somewhere else.
This is NOT good moderating....
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Looks like you didn't read the thread and are confused by the merge-thread functionality. There is not much more I can do than leaving a shadow topic in the old forum and posting a notice about the merge. Merging threads is an alternative that's sometimes better than moving to dups. |
I did not know of thread merging before and have never come across this function before. But right now I faced another one. Seems to be ok.
Sorry for that, I considered it very unsual, never having seen that before and thought there was something completely wrong.... My apologies  |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| R!tman wrote: |
I did not know of thread merging before and have never come across this function before. But right now I faced another one. Seems to be ok.
Sorry for that, I considered it very unsual, never having seen that before and thought there was something completely wrong.... My apologies |
No problem. The merging functionality was just added a couple of days ago, it will take some time until people get used to it. |
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plasmagunman
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| R!tman wrote: | Why don't you use the one provided by firefox ?
You can find it by clicking on the arrow and choose "Add Engines..." From there you click on "Find lots of other search engines..." There you simply search for "Gentoo". Voila!
Do all that as root to install these search engines system wide. |
and you have to do it system wide. i tried to install them just for my user and nothing happened, not even any error.
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WladyX
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:13 am Post subject: |
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The search engine provided by the firefox site also returns post instead of topics, is there a way to modify it? I know where it is located, but i don't know what i have to add to the url. Thanks.
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L3mP
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject: Possible to add search in gentoo forums from konqueror? SOLV |
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Hey guys.. I've tried to work out how I could make a "web-shortcut" in konqueror to search these forums..
The idea is to make konqueror take a gfs: shortcut in the location bar.. like you eg. do with google:
gg: <search string>
Have anyone been able to do this with the forum search, I'm not interrested in a google site search although it might be my alternative if it can't be done..
any help apreciated..
thx..
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L3mP
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Guess it is 
This is how it's done:
Go to Settings -> Configure Konqueror...
Select web shortcuts from the left menu, press new
Fill in fields with:
Search provider name:
Gentoo forums search (or what ever you fancy here)
Search URI:
https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_terms=all&show_results=topics&search_keywords=\{@}&mode=results
URI shortcuts:
gfs, gf (or what ever you fancy here)
done..
If found out by actually doing af google site search..
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L3mP
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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hmm.. doesn't look like I can get it to show the results as topics it shows them as messages...
seems like &show_results=topics doesn't compute 
Any ideas?
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Merged another three posts.
Is it possible to change the phpbb default behaviour to accept the display as post/topic selection via GET? |
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antares2001
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: Gentoo forums search in Konqueror |
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Hello!
Could somebody please tell me how to integrate the search function from this Gentoo discussion forum into the search of Konqueror? I've tried various things, but never get a search result.
Thank you in advance!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Merged previous post.
The code was changed last year so that show_results can be passed as a GET variable so the solution in this post should work.
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