How do I Link seach results?

[Eliteoomph]

Hey guys,

I have a site that revolves around giving and taking items. I am trying to create an easy way for people to search for available items. Right now the best thing that I have come up with is to include certain text in the post title of new available items. I then search the forum for those keywords and check search titles only to get a list of all new available items. This seems to work ok for now except I have one problem. When new items are added I am noticing that the link will no longer work properly.

Example:

http://www.mydomain.com/forums/index.php?search/408/&q=Find+Items&o=date

It seems that when there is a difference in the number of results, that the number 408 above changes... I am thinking that this is the 408th search because the number always seem to go up but I am not sure. So my problem is that if the result number changes but I do not update the link every time (which is becoming a real pain in the butt) then the search will not return all of the correct results.

How can I get around this?

 

[Paul B]

You are correct in your assumption, every search has a unique, sequential ID.
Linking to that search will just show the cached results.

I'm not sure there is an easy way around it.

 

[Jake Bunce]

You are correct. It caches previous searches for one hour.

I examined the search code and there is no option to disable caching unless you enable debug mode which is not something you want to do for a live forum.

You can manually clear the cache by running this query:

TRUNCATE TABLE xf_search;

But to permanently disable the cache requires custom code. I just posted this code modification if you are interested:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/disable-search-caching.18439/

 

[Eliteoomph]

Perfect!!! It works!!!