Search Feature

1) Watties Group: Members
Posts: 3 Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand IP: 210.54.--.--

Posted:

that has to be the best thing ive seen in forums for a long time
instead of trying to find a post about text alignment, our creating a new one to ask you. put alignment in search and bag i have my answer.
yet another massive feature.

Btw you cant mouse scroll with the message box selected in firefox

2) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 203.96.--.--

Posted:

I'm glad you like it :). The older forums here had a search feature but it was at the bottom of the page and I don't think many people used it, so it got promoted.

Yeah, different browsers will handle mousewheel scrolling differently, just use the one you like best or perhaps file a BugZilla report if you're sure you've found a browser bug...

- Angus.

3) korr_ban Group: Guests
IP: 208.181.--.--

Posted:

Have you thought about making a Global search function?
Here is my idea:
-able to select what forum you want to search
-able to select what time period the post is from
-able to do this on the front page

just some ideas...The forum has come VERY far since I last had it installed. I think I had v0.1 installed or something. Back in December 2003.

4) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 202.36.--.--

Posted:

Search is a bit of a hack :). If you check the source you'll find that it only does fulltext search of the last 100 topics by default; the rest is just on topic titles and authors.

Without a database doing search effectively is hard. It's easily the slowest operation there is. A full-forum search wouldn't be that difficult to implement, however it could be very slow (I have thousands of topics in the popup menu forum here alone, searching them all would be hard).

What I would need to do is add some kind of keyword indexing capability to the script, where each time you post or update a topic it indexes the keywords in a central file somewhere. Eventually :).

In the meantime, why not just add Google site search to the example template? Check Google's homepage for more details.

- Angus.

5) Flanagan Group: Members
Posts: 50 Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Location: USA IP: 140.175.--.--

Posted:

I agree with kor_ban. A global search feature would be great, but I mean GLOBAL. In other words, "search ALL forums". This should be available from the top level, so you don't have to know which forum to look in to find what you need.

A selection for which forum would be great, but you can already do that now, although it is a bit awkward, however, there is NO function for a search ALL that I can find. What do you think?

6) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 210.55.--.--

Posted:

I think I need to start letting Google index the forums ;).

- Angus.

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