Simple URL for search??

[ataraxia]

How would I construct a simple URL to search on a keyword in vBa Links?

I'm looking for a URL that I could build vBB code tags for use in my Forums such as this:


Search For Basketball Links


it would translate into something equivalent to this:


<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/links/whatever.php?word={option}"> Search For Basketball Links</a>


What should I replace the "whatever.php" part with???

Thanks!

[Brian]

http://yoursite.com/links/search.php?do=searchresults&catid=0&quicksearch=1&string={option}

[ataraxia]

This works really well! Thanks!

Is there a parameter to set it so that the results are sorted by title in ascending order?

What are some other parameters that could be used to sort on other fields and/or in descending order? Looking for some general guidance here. (Something to put in the Docs, eventually!)

[Brian]

Add &amp;orderby=name&amp;direction=ASC at the end of the link ;)

Other sorting options...

posts => Number of Replies
views => Number of Views
dateline => Date Added
lastpostdateline => Last Posting Date
username => User Name
directory => Directory

[ataraxia]

How about some way to sort by the highest number of occurences of the keyword in each listing? Is that possible?

Thanks again! (vB Adv Links is a GREAT script!!!!)

[Brian]

Currently, no.

[absolutepunknet]

tried this and got:
vBulletin Message
Could not find phrase 'llery_error_no_search_fields'.

advise please!

[absolutepunknet]

http://www.absolutepunk.net/artists/search.php?do=searchresults&string=cartel

This doesn't work on my page .. can anyone help?

[Rue]

Try...

http://www.vbadvanced.com/links/search.php?do=searchresults&catids=0&quicksearch=1&string=hosting
vBulletin Message => Could not find phrase 'error_no_search_terms'.

Look at code...

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'searchresults')
{
// blah

if ($searchid) // from $_REQUEST
{
// blah
}
else
{
globalize($_POST, array('some','var','names')); // from $_POST

// blah

if (!$string AND !$username)
{
eval(print_standard_error('links_error_no_search_terms'));
}

if (empty($fields) AND empty($cfields))
{
eval(print_standard_error('adv_gallery_error_no_search_fields'));
}

// blah

}
}

So it seems...

- error_no_search_terms is a typo of a missing phrase
- links_error_no_search_terms is a missing phrase (add adv_)
- llery_error_no_search_fields is a typo of a missing phrase
- adv_gallery_error_no_search_fields is a missing phrase

And you won't get past what is marked in bold with a GET query. ;)

EDIT: Phrase fix posted at http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8989

[absolutepunknet]

fixed!

[absolutepunknet]

Now, if only I could get it to (when using quick search) to just pull up and the go to the first site found..