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 a larged enough window that resembles three lines of text from each post. Precisely how can I change that to increase the preview window to 5-6 lines of text?

Note: In our previous Ver 3.07 we were given: These instructions

However, when we increased the default of 200 characters to 600, the only time the preview window expanded to a true 600 characters was when the author had written 600 characters all in a single paragraph and not 600 characters in multiple paragraphs. This leads me to believe there may be another hint toward locating the file that regulates the size of the preview window and not the size of characters.

Although this too may be a modifcation to the code, I need your help in locating the area of the code in the correct file.

Thanks,

David

[Jake Bunce]

I think this is it:

./includes/functions.php

function fetch_trimmed_title($title, $chars = -1)
{
	global $vbulletin;

	if ($chars == -1)
	{
		$chars = $vbulletin->options['lastthreadchars'];
	}

	if ($chars)
	{
		[color=red]// limit to 10 lines[/color] (\n{240}1234567890 does weird things to the thread preview)
		$titlearr = preg_split('#(\r\n|\n|\r)#', $title);
		$title = '';
		$i = 0;
		foreach ($titlearr AS $key)
		{
			$title .= "$key\n";
			$i++;
			if ($i >= 10)
			{
				break;
			}
		}
		$title = trim($title);
		unset($titlearr);

		if (vbstrlen($title) > $chars)
		{
			$title = substr($title, 0, $chars);
			if (($pos = strrpos($title, ' ')) !== false)
			{
				$title = substr($title, 0, $pos);
			}
			return $title . '...';
		}
		else
		{
			return $title;
		}
	}
	else
	{
		return $title;
	}
}

Hopefully that helps.

[David Copeland]

Beautiful!

Thanks, Jake. You're a champ.

I now have 600 characters that are showing up fully because of your help. Increasing the 10 lines did the trick for previewing posts with 600 characters with multiple paragraphs.

Again, thanks.

David