Can I suggest a handy change?

dtw · Post by **dtw** » November 1st, 2005, 1:39 pm

If someone takes the time to look at the search.php file they will find a line similar to this:

<td class="row2" colspan="2" valign="top"><span class="genmed"><input style="width: 300px;" class="post" name="search_keywords" size="30" type="text"><br><input name="search_terms" value="any" checked="checked" type="radio"> Search for any terms or use query as entered<br><input name="search_terms" value="all" type="radio"> Search for all terms</span></td>

If you change:

Code: Select all

value="any" checked="checked" type="radio"

to

Code: Select all

value="any" type="radio"

and

Code: Select all

value="all" type="radio"

to

Code: Select all

value="all" checked="checked" type="radio"

Then all searchs will be AND by default - which is a good thing cos we all know the OR setting provides 100 of useless results

Post by **turin** » November 1st, 2005, 1:41 pm

A very good suggestion.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » November 1st, 2005, 1:43 pm

Blimey that was quick

I do try to be constructive when possible

Post by **turin** » November 1st, 2005, 10:10 pm

So... who is it that has the power to do this? Ettin does, I know, but who else?...

Maybe, if it doesn't get fixed quickly enough, we should hack the server and fix it ourselves.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » November 1st, 2005, 10:55 pm

With shell access it would take approx 15 seconds

Dacyn · Post by **Dacyn** » November 1st, 2005, 11:27 pm

Other changes to default search I would suggest:
-display results as posts. Usually the only way I can get a search to yield results is when I search for some words in a post I remember seeing earlier. In this case searching for topics is useless...
-display entire post. Otherwise the post syntax breaks.

I have to change both of these practically every time I do a search, which is annoying.
However, there are probably people who would disagree... is there a way to make it modifiable on a per-user basis

Post by **turin** » November 2nd, 2005, 2:00 am

I would strongly disagree. You may not be aware of it, but the "view posts since last visit" uses the search function, so your changes would make it display most recent posts as posts - a Very Bad Thing, IMHO.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » November 2nd, 2005, 8:54 am

Turin is dead right there

Dacyn · Post by **Dacyn** » November 2nd, 2005, 1:43 pm

turin wrote:You may not be aware of it, but the "view posts since last visit" uses the search function

Maybe you could make it use non-default settings?
Anyway, the second change wouldn't affect that.
Also, sometimes I do want to search posts since last visit by post instead of by topic. Is there a way to do that?