BoardTracker Search Hack - a full search engine for your board!

BoardTracker Search Hack

This search mod replaces the built in vb search with boardtracker search and results are fully integrated with your board. Search results can be threads from your board or all boards or a select group of boards - your choice!

Once installed, search from the search box on any page will pull results from boardtracker and display them within your board. 'Advanced Search' can still link to the existing vb search script or you can replace that also.

Results can be formated in any way you want with some simple template variables.

Options control panel allows you to switch the boardtracker search mod on or off at any time so you can switch between boardtracker and vb search whenever you want.

The following configuration options/defaults exist:

Switch search on/off

Switch 'safe filter' on/off

Board ID - you can limit search to just your board, or several boards you choose or ALL boards indexed by boardtracker.

Category ID - you can define a category on boardtracker and searches will only pull results from that category.

Default Sort Order - you can sort results by relevancy or by post date.

Default Search Scope - results can be limited to last day, week, month, year or all time.

Default Search Query - a search term that will be executed whenever the boardtracker search script is called directly with no params. For example you could set it to "site:yourdomain.com blah" and it will display all threads from your board about "blah"

User selections on the search form override the defaults.

The mod is very easy to install and consists of 1 php script to upload, 1 product xml file to install, 1 simple template edit. The xml product file creates one new template, an options panel and a few phrases.

You can see a demo here which has the search set to global so results come from all boards in boardtracker (since there are no actual posts on the demo board to search )

If your board is not yet indexed by BoardTracker, make sure to submit it!

Make sure to click install to umm.. install! ;)

Very nice work!

[Arnoud]

Thanks for sharing !

great work bro

[Junior]

now that is hot

[Developer]

thanx for sharing

[Idan]

nice job m8.

[rJmJr69]

Useless until they decide to accept new sites with what I have been able to gather this has been an ongoing problem with no resolve date posted.

[prabhgrewal]

Originally Posted by rJmJr69

Useless until they decide to accept new sites with what I have been able to gather this has been an ongoing problem with no resolve date posted.

you are rite, its been ages since i installed this hack, with boardtracker yet to index my site,, they keep saying they are in the process of migrating to a new system, but the the process seems never ending :tired: :tired: :tired: ...i think its time to uninstall this

cheers

*note* if you are using vbseo, your old url will be shown on the BT site..