Change default sortby

[sinucello]

Hi,

in the output of search.php, the default value for the "Sort Results by" field is "Last posting date". How can I change the default value to "Relevancy"?

I`m not a programmer but I looked into search.php and found this lines:
// get correct sortby value
$vbulletin->GPC['sortby'] = strtolower($vbulletin->GPC['sortby']);
switch($vbulletin->GPC['sortby'])

So $vbulletin->GPC['sortby'] seems to return the value "lastpost". How can I change it to "rank"? Is there some option in the admincp I didn`t see?

Thank you - all the best,
Sacha

[Jake Bunce]

I looked at the code and there doesn't appear to be any option to set the default. You would have to modify the code itself. For help with this I recommend you post on www.vbulletin.org.

[sinucello]

Hello Jake,

I looked at the code and there doesn't appear to be any option to set the default. You would have to modify the code itself. For help with this I recommend you post on www.vbulletin.org.

thanks for your reply. I changed line 316 of search.php like this:

// set default sortby if not specified or unrecognized
default:
$vbulletin->GPC['sortby'] = 'rank'; 

but that doesn`t seem to have any effect. So I`ll walk over to vb.org and ask for help there.

all the best,
Sacha