Is it possible to do that? Let's say I want to create a link for the word "test" searching topic subjects only, only in this board.
Something like this
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=testing
works, but only for latin scripts (not for Greek):
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=ελληνικά
The search term needs to be urlencoded in order to work. Obviously most latin characters don't need urlencoding
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC+
Is there any easy/automatic way to do URL encoding?
Its a PHP function.
http://uk.php.net/urlencode
so
urlencode('ελληνικά');
It would be more difficult to use it in posts. Probably the easiest way would be to have someone write a urlencode bbcode
eg
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=[ue]ελληνικά[/ue]
Clever idea Karl! Maybe someone should make a mod for it, sounds like a useful thing to have. ;)
Search (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC)
[url=http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=ελληνικά]Search[/url]
Using the url tag works. (Though it doesn't return any results!)
Cool! Easier than I thought.
I have already reported this problem here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=234039.0
Is it possible though to have extra parameters in the search query, like which boards to search and to search only topic titles?
It is, though I can't remember what they are.
Yes its brd[]=x
Where x is the board id. You repeat that for each board id you want.
Of course this now gets messy urls :P
It works! But how can one specify more than 1 board? I tried this but it did not work (searched only first board):
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;brd[]=9,86;search=testing
I hope this helps, this is the BASE64 encode string for a search on this forum for the term ελληνικά
YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=
Which decoded is:
advanced|'|1|"|brd|'|23,45,125,80,48,124,47,87,88,92,93,117,26,75,130,31,44,74,103,123,1,126,19,30,24,36,29,145,141,146,10,20,132,133,134,135,9,11,147,148,86,2,137,37,3,38,60,33,77,138,59,79,34,96,106,72,115,5,40,56,116,4,6,8,41,35,50,51,128,129|"|show_complete|'||"|subject_only|'||"|sort_dir|'|desc|"|sort|'|relevance|"|search|'|ελληνικά
I'm sure you can pass the decoded text to the search2 parameter, or alter to your desired search parameters.
I cannot get this URL to work, any ideas as how I can pass in the search string more than one board?
spiros,
Long time, no see!
The format is like the one KarlBenson suggested.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC+
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC+
Rumbaar's suggestion is that you can build a search string, such as
advanced|'|1|"|brd|'|23,45,125,80,48,124,47,87,88,92,93,117,26,75,130,31,44,74,103,123,1,126,19,30,24,36,29,145,141,146,10,20,132,133,134,135,9,11,147,148,86,2,137,37,3,38,60,33,77,138,59,79,34,96,106,72,115,5,40,56,116,4,6,8,41,35,50,51,128,129|"|show_complete|'||"|subject_only|'||"|sort_dir|'|desc|"|sort|'|relevance|"|search|'|ελληνικά
And then base64encode it to give
YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=
And finally put this encoded string into the search URL:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=
that last url did not give search results
LainaaSearch string must be less than %1$d characters long.
is all it gives.
That's funny. I thought it worked the first time I tried it. I must have been mistaken.
I think a simple link to a custom page might be a bit tougher than spiros imagined.
Of course, with fewer boards listed, it might just come under the character limit. Whatever that is!