Help with url search...

[James Goddard]

Ok, I've done some searching on here and cannot find this particular one. I'd like to bascily do a getnew on subscribed forums. I've tried several urls, and non seem to work:

http://www.host.com/search.php?do=getnew&forumid=subscribed
http://www.host.com/search.php?do=getnew&forumid[]=subscribed
Seems the getnew code requires forumid to be an intiger value.
http://www.host.com/search.php?do=getnew&forumchoice=subscribed
http://www.host.com/search.php?do=getnew&forumchoice[]=subscribed
Seems the getnew code completely ignores forumchoice.
http://www.host.com/search.php?do=process&forumchoice[]=subscribed&searchdate=lastvisit
Gives an error because of no search term. Is there any kind of wildcard I can put in the search term?


If anyone knows how to do this without mods it would be greatly appreciated.

James

[Jake Bunce]

You can exclude forums from the search by adding the red code:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=X,Y,Z

Where X,Y,Z is a comma-separated list of forumids you want to exclude.

[James Goddard]

You can exclude forums from the search by adding the red code:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=X,Y,Z

Where X,Y,Z is a comma-separated list of forumids you want to exclude.

Yea, I'm aware of this. I actually want to use this on a board that is not my own. The problem is that they have approaching 400 forums, and seem to be on a roll adding one a week . Keeping up with the excludes is a daunting task.

I posted a thread on how to do the exclude thing and people love it, but it sure would be a lot easier if they could just subscribe to the forums they want to see.

James

[Jake Bunce]

There is supposed to be an include option in a future version, where only included forums are listed. I don't know exactly when that will be introduced.

[James Goddard]

There is supposed to be an include option in a future version, where only included forums are listed. I don't know exactly when that will be introduced.

Include is a great feature for Admins to put up custom searches, but for the user, doing a get new on subscribed forums would be the feature of choice.

Consider this an official suggestion. I think it can be done with two simple changes to the getnew code:

Change:

'forumid' => INT,

To:

'forumid' => STR,


And change:

if (isset($forumcache["$forumid]"))

To:

if (isset($forumcache[$forumid]) || $forumid === 'subscribed')

I'll post this over on org, but I'd really like to see it in the main product.

James

[Spinball]

Curious. It seems much more logical to have 'include' rather than 'exclude'.
I want to create a forum link to a digest of 3 other forums. The digest will be created using a search. I have over 100 forums on my board, and I'm rearranging and adding new ones regularly.
It would be an easy solution to put 'include' and list 3 ids rather than put exclude and put 97!!!