[Suggestion] Combine The Search Engines

Freeway · July 19th, 2005, 10:51 AM

This might be a tall order but I'm hoping the hooks in 3.5 will make this doable.
It would be nice to have one search engine for the gallerys are the fourms. All the time I see users trying to search for pictures in the fourms search engine as well as the other way around. There is also the issue of people clicking on the "Find all posts by" link in the users profile. It would be nice if this link would also find the comments left by users for pictures. Combining the search engines would solve this.

gorp · July 19th, 2005, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Freeway

This might be a tall order but I'm hoping the hooks in 3.5 will make this doable.
It would be nice to have one search engine for the gallerys are the fourms. All the time I see users trying to search for pictures in the fourms search engine as well as the other way around. There is also the issue of people clicking on the "Find all posts by" link in the users profile. It would be nice if this link would also find the comments left by users for pictures. Combining the search engines would solve this.

I agree- more than one search engine is confusing.

ConqSoft · July 19th, 2005, 11:10 AM

Just so it's an option that we can turn off.

Zachariah · December 5th, 2005, 08:16 PM

Why not an extra search field in the $navbar template on the "search"
dropdown. It will just submit to the gallery vs. the forums.

This way if your $navbar built in to the forums is on a page so is a search for the gallery.

piperxtreme · December 9th, 2005, 11:06 PM

it's a good idea

PhoenixDown21 · December 29th, 2005, 01:06 AM

Zachariahs -- I like the idea. Do you have any sample code on how to go about that?

I added the advanced searches to my navbar links. You can see it attached.

Zachariah · December 29th, 2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by PhoenixDown21

Zachariahs -- I like the idea. Do you have any sample code on how to go about that?

I added the advanced searches to my navbar links. You can see it attached.

http://www.photopost.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121816

cbr929rrerion · December 31st, 2005, 01:58 PM

Added.. awesome.. Thanks..

somerfeld · February 9th, 2006, 04:08 AM

i agree

Freeway · February 26th, 2006, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zachariah

Why not an extra search field in the $navbar template on the "search"
dropdown. It will just submit to the gallery vs. the forums.

This way if your $navbar built in to the forums is on a page so is a search for the gallery.

Still...
I hate it when you go to someones profile page and click Find all posts by" " and it comes up zero, even if the guy has made 300 comment in the gallery section.