Feature Request

[hydrophilic]

(wow, that is a lot of smiles)

Lance, could you add a link, say at the bottom, of each topic/thread to navigate to the next/previous one?  Would be real handy when you post a dozen items in Auctions or if a member has been away for a while and there are a bunch of 'new' topics in a category.

Since your site seems to be in PHP, I could even help, provided you trust my coding.

[Blacklord]

(wow, that is a lot of smiles)

Lance, could you add a link, say at the bottom, of each topic/thread to navigate to the next/previous one?  Would be real handy when you post a dozen items in Auctions or if a member has been away for a while and there are a bunch of 'new' topics in a category.

Since your site seems to be in PHP, I could even help, provided you trust my coding.

Should be possible - let me see what I can do......

Lance

[Golan Klinger]

I wish it were possible to block out particular boards so when I search for new posts I wouldn't see anything in auctions. I don't find those particular posts all that useful and they clutter things up something awful so I end up loading the new messages and closing the tabs immediately. It seems like a waste of bandwidth.

[Blacklord]

I wish it were possible to block out particular boards so when I search for new posts I wouldn't see anything in auctions. I don't find those particular posts all that useful and they clutter things up something awful so I end up loading the new messages and closing the tabs immediately. It seems like a waste of bandwidth.

You've hit the major problem with searching & PunBB. It defaults to using OR as the main search function, so if you say, searched for "commodore atari" you'd turn up all posts with either expression in them rather than the expected ones that you'd get if AND was the assumed method of searching.

I've actually partially coded a fix to this & if I can finish it reasonably quickly (there's a couple of ermmmm....  "features" that are causing the odd search every now & again to return a blank page. The other issue I'm getting is that a search of a MySQL db is considerably slower using AND (or my code is crap (more likely)).

What I might try tonight is incorporating the code into the PET forums (less chance of wreaking havoc there at the mo), or opening up my test forums & letting people loose in 'em (bearing in mind that's there quite a bit of of test stuff there that breaks often).

One of the side effects of the code is that it will reduce the search table by around 30% which results in a smaller db (still doesn't speed things up though) - this is achieved by reducing words to their basic form - for example "adventure" & "adventurous" will be deemed to be the same term.

Oh, yeah, one final issue - it's broken completely in IE7. (Now I should be surprised why ?)

cheers,

Lance

[Blacklord]

Modified the default search behaviour so it's now AND not OR