Forum Customization Questions

[dibblethewrecker]

I have a few questions about the customizations that have been made to the forum.

1) Glance: how have you reduced the fields/columns shown in the list? I can't seem to find an explanation - just people saying they have done it - [FIXED] you need to edit the template glance_body.tpl
2) How/Why does the gentoo forums plugin for firefox return results with AND enabled and by threads rather than posts? Have you hacked search.php to make this a default? I am quite sure it is not the plugin itself that controls this.

Many thanks

[amne]

2) How/Why does the gentoo forums plugin for firefox return results with AND enabled and by threads rather than posts? Have you hacked search.php to make this a default? I am quite sure it is not the plugin itself that controls this.

I don't really know which plugin you are talking about, but we have changed some of the default settings (such as enabling AND) on the search page, maybe that affects the plugin?

[dibblethewrecker]

Hello,

I'm refering to the firefox gentoo forum searchplugin listed here - as far as I can tell there are no special commands in the plugin that effect the results display - so I assume the changes must be in search.php - is it possible to have a list of those changes?

[Earthwings]

For 2), have a look at this patch for an older version of phpbb:

Code: Select all

--- ../phpBB/search.php 2005-03-19 12:17:58.000000000 +0100 
+++ search.php  2005-04-23 18:56:45.000000000 +0200 
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ 
 
 $search_id = ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['search_id']) ) ? 
$HTTP_GET_VARS['search_id'] : ''; 
 
-$show_results = ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results']) ) ? 
$HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results'] : 'posts'; 
+$show_results = ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['show_results']) ) ? 
$HTTP_GET_VARS['show_results'] : 'topics'; 
+$show_results = ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results']) ) ? 
$HTTP_POST_VARS['show_results'] : 'topics'; 
 $show_results = ($show_results == 'topics') ? 'topics' : 'posts'; 
 
 if ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['search_terms']) ) 

Don't use it this way however:

Thinking on it, "topics" shouldn't be default as it would affect
search.php?search_author=<user> which is used by the "show all posts from"
button.

I think you get the idea.

[dibblethewrecker]

Well, we could have two search.phps - one would be the regular one for the site and search2.php could be used by the firefox plugin to always sort by threads - I am still have problems with an AND search by default tho - that is the main problem - 100 results for the word "is" is no good for anyone!

[ian!]

I'm currently working on a new search engine. I don't think we will make any changes to the existing one because it will become obsolete soon. (As well as the browser plugin.)