Quick search at top of Sitepoint

[tommy]

Sitepoint have added a useful forum search box at the top of all the pages. I did have a quick look into it and it seems that the search will return results for users and the content of the forums.

What's the best way to do this?

[tommy]

ok guys and gals, do you know where is the best place to post this question where I can get some feedback?

[Chen]

Add this code in one of your templates
--- Templates ---

<form action="search.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="35">
<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice" value="-1">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="simplesearch">
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="Submit" value="Perform Search" accesskey="s">
<input type="reset" class="bginput" name="Reset" value="Reset Fields">
</form> 

You can also replace this (if you want to give users the option to choose what forums to search in)

<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice" value="-1"> 

with

<select name="forumchoice">
<option value="-1">Search All Open Forums</option>
$searchforumbits
</select> 

--- /Templates ---
--- Files ---
But then you would have to add

$searchforumbits=getsearchforums(); 

in each and every PHP file that uses the template you put the form in.
Maybe you can put the above code in global.php, but I'm not sure if that's ok.
--- /Files ---

[c-prompt]

Hey I got it all working. But my problem seems to be that when I search, it doesn't find anything. Even things I know are there.

Any reason this would happen?

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Past 3 days I had 3 questions......all have gone unanswered.

BooHoo!

[Sinecure]

I beleive this is what your looking for ladies hehehe

http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19462

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Sinecure»

I do have all this working, my problem is that the search itself doesn't find anything. It says that everything you search for cant be found.

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http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=173296&t=109#post173296

Go there if you will. I posted my code about this matter.

Thank you for any help. This is driving me crazy.