Hacking searches / Permanent search links

[xhexdx]

Just an FYI...

Seems with the upgrade, some of this stuff doesn't work properly. In particular, searching specific forums. Seems when I try to search in one forum, it gives me results for everything.

 

[Zoltan]

The link is the same if you want to search in a specific forum, with one exception, you need to add contenttype=vBForum_Post to it to work. Also, it appears that searching forum groups like "Tarantulas" = "Tarantula Questions & Discussions" + "Tarantula Chat" + "Tarantula Pictures" doesn't work, but you can search in multiple forums by adding each forum with forumchoice[]=X. For example, this is a search for "Ceratogyrus" in Tarantula Questions & Discussions and Tarantula Chat, showing results as threads:

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/search.php?do=process&query=Ceratogyrus&forumchoice[]=2&forumchoice[]=49&contenttype=vBForum_Post

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/sea...]=2&forumchoice[]=49&contenttype=vBForum_Post

The same, showing results as posts ("http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/" omitted in code):

search.php?do=process&query=Ceratogyrus&forumchoice[]=2&forumchoice[]=49&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/sea...ice[]=49&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1

Edit: it looks like it can also work if you just want to input the Tarantulas group as the place to search in, in this case you must include childforums=1 which enables the search to include child forums.

search.php?do=process&query=Ceratogyrus&forumchoice[]=50&childforums=1&contenttype=vBForum_Post

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/sea...e[]=50&childforums=1&contenttype=vBForum_Post

 

[Ungoliant]

for example, if i want to do a search for crickets i need to make a link like this:

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/search.php?do=process&query=crickets

Does this method still work? (The examples in the original post lead to error pages, as do the examples in the above staff reply, and when I tried to use this method a few weeks ago, it didn't work either.)

If this method no longer works, is there any possibility of getting the thread unpinned? This is cluttered with enough stickies (even on a desktop monitor, I have to hit page down twice to get to new threads) without including outdated technical support information.

 

[MrDeranged]

Unsticking now. Didn't realized this was still up. We're using totally different software now.

 

[Ungoliant]

Unsticking now. Didn't realized this was still up. We're using totally different software now.

Thanks! At some point, the pinned threads could use a review for which ones are outdated (or full of broken links), need to be consolidated, etc.

@EulersK posted some suggestions.

Movement to Remove Stickies: Tarantula Chat

Removing Excessive Stickies in Discussions: Tarantula Questions & Discussions