How do I Increase the Preview Lines in Search Results?

[David Copeland]

When we use the Advanced Search for:

1. Type in User Name
2. Change options to SHOW BY POSTS
3. Choose SEARCH NOW

Question: On the Search Results Page, we only see three lines of text from each post. Precisely how can I change that to increase the preview to 5-6 lines of text?

Thanks,

David

[Jake Bunce]

It appears this is hard coded into the search.php file:

			// get first 200 chars of page text
			$post['pagetext'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_censored_text(trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($post['pagetext'], 1), 200))));

[David Copeland]

It appears this is hard coded into the search.php file:

			// get first 200 chars of page text
			$post['pagetext'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_censored_text(trim(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($post['pagetext'], 1), 200))));

Please tell me how I can find that file and if I can edit it to increase it to 400 chars.

Thank you very much,

Daviid

[Steve Machol]

That file is in your main forum directory. Perhaps changing the '200' to '400' will help.

Since this involves modifying the code, if you need further help please ask over at vbulletin.org.