I've found it annoying to search trough these forums.
If you're not sure about the right forum your questrion could already have been posted you'll have to select each possible forum and run the search script again.

Also , a forum search script slows forums down the most , also on webspace , these "word databases" take up alot of space.

Therefore , can't you put in this Google Sitesearch function?
It searches all the pages in the forum too , only it takes longer before that database gets updated , but it will speed up these forums alot , speed up searchings of questions and maybe the recent downtimes (Maybe this could be a cause but I'm not familiar with asp).

Anyway , Here's the code to do that:

quote:
<!-- SiteSearch Google -->
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom">
<table border="0" bgcolor="">
<tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32">
<a href="http://www.google.com/">
<img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25gry.gif"
border="0" alt="Google"></img></a>
<br/>
<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="www.soldatforums.com"></input>
<input type="text" name="q" size="32" maxlength="255" value=""></input>
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"></input>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value=""></input>
<font size="-1" color="#000000">Web</font>
</td>
<td>
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="www.soldatforums.com" checked="checked"></input>
<font size="-1" color="#000000">SoldatForums</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-4109526466655731"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>

</td></tr></table>
</form>
<!-- SiteSearch Google -->

Grtz , DePhille

it's spelled "grits"

What is spelled "grits" ?
You mean Grtz should be "grits" (Grtz = Greetings) , but I don't think you meant that , so what is spelled wrong?

Grtz , DePhille

grits, southern food made out of corn, pour it into boiling water let it sit then add salt pepper and butter.... best food ever! I must say I can make some awsome grits!

I'd probably implement it, but at the moment I can't edit the forums themselves. I'll see what I can do.

If you had FTP access you would have already made me signature admin, of course.

quote:Originally posted by mar77aIf you had FTP access you would have already made me signature admin, of course.

I can do that without FTP access.

1) google isn't as up to date as the forum search is when its up to date
2) this can just as easily be accomplished by prepending (adding to the beginning) site:soldatforums.com to any google search if you just want to search the forums

Brick:

Most people don't know that you can add site:www.domain.com to a google query , nor any other special feature. When you use the SiteSearch you will see site:www.soldatforums.com behind your query so it just is to prevent people from having to type that every time.

About your first comment: Google is up-to-date enough to list the topics that aren't on the first page of every Forum category. Also it doesn't slow the forums down.
Considering the number of times that search feature is used , moving to Google sitesearch is a good idea I think.

Grtz , DePhille

I won't remove the classic forum search, it's proven too useful if you know how to use it.

I'll probably add the google search to the search page later on.