Limit Search box to certain forums

[kafi]

How to limit Search box to certain forums?

I have setup vbadvanced page that I want to serve to certain part of my forum only and that is why I wish to search only within these forums ONLY...

Thank you!!!

[Brian]

If I'm thinking correctly, you could add some hidden input fields to the adv_portal_search template that look something like this:

<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice[]" value="X" />
<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice[]" value="Y" />
<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice[]" value="Z" />

(Replace the X, Y, Z values with the forumids)

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[kafi]

Yes Thank you it works well.

Is there any way to replace IDs for each forum with theirs parent forum ID? I tried that but it doesnt work that way for me...

[Brian]

If you add this input, that should do the trick.

<input type="hidden" name="childforums" value="1" />

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[kafi]

wow great :-)

and one last question: How to make search result html to inherit cmps style? I have different style for cmps than default, but search stick to default style...

THANK YOU 1000 times .-)

[Brian]

There may be a way to force your search.php file to have a certain style, but I'm not sure what it is off the top of my head.

[kafi]

:-( I do not want to have all search results in style id=5, only from forums that use that style id=5 and and also vba that use the same style id=5.
Forumhome and rest of forums use style id=1

Please .-) Can you figure it out?

Also I am looking for solution that will reserve first 5 search result positions for forums using styleid=5. I am willing to pay for such bonus .-) Please PM me if you find it interesting...

I want to use this for tutorials. Since search time logic will digg them in search result, they tend to loose position eventhough they are content-rich...