XF 1.1 Linking to searches

[ashkir]

How can we link others to our searches on our forum? It seems they're given a unique id but they seem to not work for others.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Those search ids expire. You need to use a link like this to submit a new search:

index.php?search/search/&keywords=term

Other fields from the search form can be added to the URL as GET parameters.

This may also be useful:

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

 

[ashkir]

Kind of like the caching. That is neat! So for author can I use &author= ? How would threads be? search by author and list as threads?

For example let's say I wanted to search node #7 for posts by 'ashkir' listed as threads... Would it be like this?

index.php?search/search/&author=ashkir&node=7&display=thread

 

[Jake Bunce]

Example using this forum:

http://xenforo.com/community/search/search/?type=post&users=ashkir&group_discussion=1&nodes[]=25

 

[ashkir]

Thank you!

 

[ashkir]

How would we link to multiple? http://rpg-directory.com/search/sea...group_discussion=1&nodes[]=418,85,81,76,73,70

That doesn't seem to work.

Is there a way to make the search id's last longer like let's say a week?

 

[ragtek]

you'll have to change this

// delete old searches
$db->delete('xf_search', 'search_date < ' . (XenForo_Application::$time - 86400));

in XenForo_CronEntry_CleanUp

 

[ashkir]

Will this change allow us to link to other searches? It's very annoying when trying to link a search result and it does not work for anyone but the person whom searched.

 

[Digital Doctor]

http://rpg-directory.com/search/search/?type=post&users=The+Mad+Hattress&group_discussion=1&nodes[]=418&nodes[]=85&nodes[]=81&nodes[]=76&nodes[]=73&nodes[]=70

This works.
Super Long but it works.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Will this change allow us to link to other searches?

Give an example of the search you want to share (use Xenforo as an example).

 

[ashkir]

We like to award some trophies for posting let's say 150 times in a specific group of nodes? Like Debater's Award for posting 40 times in the debate forum, we'd like them to be able to link to their search when applying for it.

Or MyB Guest with 200 posts in our MyB forum, we'd love if they can link to the search. A lot of our members aren't that savvy at it and needs things to be explained, and some of us do too, as it can be confusing constructing a get link each time so we can just link to the searches.

Edit: The caching system is fine. We're a large forum! It's just we want a better way to SHARE search results to someone else.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Digital Doctor is correct. You need to specify the node_ids separately in the URL:

&nodes[]=418&nodes[]=85&nodes[]=81&nodes[]=76&nodes[]=73&nodes[]=70

 

[Digital Doctor]

I guess it should be renamed to &node ?

 

[ashkir]

Thanks! Is there a way to get the URL to give our members that get url so they can link to other people their searches? Instead of having to go through the hassle of manually figuring out how to edit that url?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Thanks! Is there a way to get the URL to give our members that get url so they can link to other people their searches? Instead of having to go through the hassle of manually figuring out how to edit that url?

Requires addon.

 

[ashkir]

Requires addon.

Do you know if any addon like that exists? Or are we gonna have to save up to request for it?

Thanks.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Do you know if any addon like that exists? Or are we gonna have to save up to request for it?

Thanks.

Request.

 

[Itworx4me]

index.php?search/search/&keywords=term

Jake,

Does this still hold true for xenforo 1.4.4 ???

 

[Jake Bunce]

Jake,

Does this still hold true for xenforo 1.4.4 ???

Yes.