Creating links to search queries

[spiros]

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

[karlbenson]

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+

[spiros]

Is there any easy/automatic way to do URL encoding?

[karlbenson]

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]

[spiros]

Clever idea Karl! Maybe someone should make a mod for it, sounds like a useful thing to have. 

[Dannii]

Search

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

[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!)

[spiros]

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?

[Dannii]

It is, though I can't remember what they are.

[SleePy]

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

[spiros]

It works! But how can one specify more than 1 board? I tried this but it did not work (searched only first board):

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;brd[]=9,86;search=testing

[Rumbaar]

I hope this helps, this is the BASE64 encode string for a search on this forum for the term ελληνικά

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=

Which decoded is:

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

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.

[spiros]

I cannot get this URL to work, any ideas as how I can pass in the search string more than one board?

[Angelina Belle]

spiros,

Long time, no see!

The format is like the one KarlBenson suggested.

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna


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

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

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

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=


And finally put this encoded string into the search URL:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=YWR2YW5jZWR8J3wxfCJ8YnJkfCd8MjMsNDUsMTI1LDgwLDQ4LDEyNCw0Nyw4Nyw4OCw5Miw5MywxMTcsMjYsNzUsMTMwLDMxLDQ0LDc0LDEwMywxMjMsMSwxMjYsMTksMzAsMjQsMzYsMjksMTQ1LDE0MSwxNDYsMTAsMjAsMTMyLDEzMywxMzQsMTM1LDksMTEsMTQ3LDE0OCw4NiwyLDEzNywzNywzLDM4LDYwLDMzLDc3LDEzOCw1OSw3OSwzNCw5NiwxMDYsNzIsMTE1LDUsNDAsNTYsMTE2LDQsNiw4LDQxLDM1LDUwLDUxLDEyOCwxMjl8InxzaG93X2NvbXBsZXRlfCd8fCJ8c3ViamVjdF9vbmx5fCd8fCJ8c29ydF9kaXJ8J3xkZXNjfCJ8c29ydHwnfHJlbGV2YW5jZXwifHNlYXJjaHwnfM61zrvOu863zr3Ouc66zqw=

[Illori]

that last url did not give search results

Search string must be less than %1$d characters long.

is all it gives.

[Angelina Belle]

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!