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One of the small problems with vBulletin Board is that its search function converts its search.php querystrings into a "search id" which ruins the search hyperlink when you paste the search results URL into a topic post, as shown below...
https://www.ipcamtalk.com/search.php?searchid=1123361
(When a user clicks on the above URL, "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." is returned)
It may be useful to some members that this problem can be overcome by using the syntax method shown below..
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-legacy-versions-products/legacy-vbulletin-versions/vbulletin-3-0-how-do-i-and-troubleshooting-forum/110659-how-to-submit-a-search-through-the-url
Here are two (2) real world IpCamTalk examples...
Example 1:
HTH
https://www.ipcamtalk.com/search.php?searchid=1123361
(When a user clicks on the above URL, "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." is returned)
It may be useful to some members that this problem can be overcome by using the syntax method shown below..
You can submit a search to vBulletin with a URL, just like you can with the search form. The basic URL is:
Where searchword is the word for which you are searching.
Here is a list of the extra search parameters you can add to the URL. When you add a search parameter to the URL you need to add this to the end of the URL:&variable_name=valueSearch field: Search by Key Word
Variable name: titleonly
Values:
- 0 = Search Entire Posts
- 1 = Search Titles Only
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-legacy-versions-products/legacy-vbulletin-versions/vbulletin-3-0-how-do-i-and-troubleshooting-forum/110659-how-to-submit-a-search-through-the-url
Here are two (2) real world IpCamTalk examples...
Example 1:
- Search for the term: pinout
- Search topic titles only
- search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=pinout
- https://www.ipcamtalk.com/search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=pinout
- Search for the term: pinout
- Search entire topic post
- search.php?do=process&titleonly=0&query=pinout
- https://www.ipcamtalk.com/search.php?do=process&titleonly=0&query=pinout
HTH
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