XF 2.0 Link for search all threads with a particular prefix

[AndreaDB]

In XF1 to search for all threads (in all nodes) with a particular prefix I used this link:

For example this is a link for search all threads with prefix "XF 1.4": http://xenforo.com/community/search/search/?keywords=*&type=post&group_discussion=1&prefixes[]=35

In XF2 what is the link like this above? Note the two keywords in bold.

 

[AndreaDB]

Up

Thanks

 

[AndreaDB]

I do not know if @Brogan can answer me. Thanks

 

[Ovunc Dinc]

Hi, @AndreaDB

I am not sure but you can try to edit this code,

<a href="{{ link('forums', $forum) }}?prefix_id={$prefixId}" class="labelLink">

 

[S Thomas]

https://xenforo.com/community/searc...&t=post&c[prefixes][0]={prefixId}&o=relevance
as post request I think

 

[AndreaDB]

<a href="{{ link('forums', $forum) }}?prefix_id={$prefixId}" class="labelLink">

https://xenforo.com/community/searc...&t=post&c[prefixes][0]={prefixId}&o=relevance

Thanks, but this links work only if you put a keyword and not with the wildcard "*" how it worked in XF1 with elasticsearch.
As I explained in first post I need to search in all threads of the all nodes/forums.

 

[AndreaDB]

Is it a function no longer supported in XF2?

Is there someone who can help me?

 

[AndreaDB]

Please, can any of the staff members answer me?

 

[Joe Link]

I'm also looking for info on how to construct a search link (for addition to the Visitor Menu). Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Kirby]

Hi Joe,
I did not have any kind of support from the Xenforo team and I developed a simple PHP callback on my own that I recall from a Xenforo page node. With this I can search by one or more threads prefixes in the whole forum.
Note that the attached code is very basic, the code not use the forum search engine and has comments and output in Italian but works perfectly on the latest version of XF2.

Wow, that is really ugly and potentially dangerous code (SQL injection).

I've attached a little Add-on that should solve this in a more proper way:
It does allow to use advanced search on threads by selecting just a prefix.

 

[AndreaDB]

This is not what I requested!
You have eliminated my contribution which had no dangers of SQL injection.

 

[AndreaDB]

I don't remember if I had already included it in this version but there were some preg_replace to avoid SQL injection. I wanted to check but my post has been deleted!

 

[Kirby]

This is not what I requested!

Hmm, maybe I misunderstood your request, but didn't you want to search for Threads by just providing the pefix (and optinally nodes) as advanced search parameters without also specifying a keyword or user?
This is what this Add-on does allow you to do, such a search URL would be search/search?search_type=post&c[prefixes][]=35

You have eliminated my contribution which had no dangers of SQL injection.

I have not eliminated anything, I do not even have pemission to delete posts - this was done by XF staff, most likely because they considered the code to be insecure.

preg_replace is not the proper way to sanitize data for MySQL; there are method in the DB class to do that.

Update
I've tested your code (didn't do that before, just looked at it) and it does indeed produce an SQL injection and contains no preg_replace

 

[BlueSquares]

This is what this Add-on does allow you to do, such a search URL would be search/search?search_type=post&c[prefixes][]=35

Kirby, thanks for the Addon. I can't get my Prefix search to come up by using the code above in the URL. Am I missing a setting or prerequisite anywhere? Or am I structuring the URL incorrectly? I've tried the following with my '5' prefix:

https://www.mydomain.com/search/search?search_type=post&c[prefixes][]=5
[/icode]

 

[Electronic Punk]

Sadly also having the same trouble with this url: https://www.osnn.net/search/search?search_type=post&c[prefixes][]=2

 

[Electronic Punk]

I found another thread that mentioned wildcards, so this works for me!

Search results for query: ****

www.osnn.net

 

[Kirby]

Kirby, thanks for the Addon. I can't get my Prefix search to come up by using the code above in the URL. Am I missing a setting or prerequisite anywhere? Or am I structuring the URL incorrectly? I've tried the following with my '5' prefix:

The Add-on was written for XenForo 2.1.7, it does not work for XenForo 2.1.8+ which contains this bugfix:

Fixed - Changing behaviour of search requires more work than necessary

\XF\Pub\Controller\Search::actionSearch() requires that a keyword or username is given. Changing this behaviour (for example to allow searching for threads by prefix only) requires a fair amount of code duplication. If this part was changed from if ($query->getErrors()) { return...

xenforo.com

I've attached an updated version that should work for 2.1.8+