The search engine blows

[Veej007]

you could just embed a customized google search box at the top of the page which appends site:messageboard.tapeop.com at the end of the search term. i've seen this done elsewhere.

[syrupcore]

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		<form id="googlesearch" method="get" name="f" action="http&#58;//www.google.com/search">
			<fieldset>
			<legend>Search the Messageboard with Google</legend>
				<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="messageboard.tapeop.com" />
				<input type="text" id="googlesearchinput" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value=" "   />
				<input type="submit" class="submit" id="googlesearchsubmit" value="Search" />
			</fieldset>
		</form>

will work and leaves the text box clean via that 'hidden' input. I added some IDs to make styling it easier if'n you want to.

I'd just stick it in search.php but maybe more people would utfsf if it were in the header...

[percussion boy]

sorry you don't like it but it's what we have to work with (like hedwig and her angry inch). hillary

Ah, Tape Op: Home of the transsexual simile.

[TapeOpHillary]

sorry you don't like it but it's what we have to work with (like hedwig and her angry inch). hillary

Ah, Tape Op: Home of the transsexual simile.

if that was only true. i might be 5% happier.

[tret-lo]

So should we seriously replace the search with this? I'm all for it.

While we're at it, we could disable the stupid phpbb indexing. You wouldn't believe how it works. It takes every single word in each post (minus those on a stoplist) and puts them all in a table called "words", which it queries every time you do a search. I'm sure this slows down posting considerably.

[TapeOpHillary]

i don't know ryan. i wouldn't replace it. maybe we could add it in the header?
as far as the indexing, whatever you think is good.

[Veej007]

while we're at it, can we get rss?

here are some plugins or whatever that add it to phpbb:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=144548
http://tools.wackomenace.co.uk/phpbb-rss/

[crow]

i've never had any trouble finding out what i needed with the search function.

[TapeOpHillary]

while we're at it, can we get rss?

that's a great idea...ryan?

[Veej007]

just a please-dont-forget-about-me-bump from a google reader addict...

[Veej007]

pretty pretty please with a ksm44 on top?

[TapeOpHillary]

ryan sez, yeah, we can do rss...
however it's not on our list of top priorities at the moment and we're only 2 people making the board happen, really...
we seem to have conquered the spamming problem (!) and as soon as we can be sure the board stays up - having issues with our host's dns server not responding properly - for a consecutive week or something stupid, we can tackle the rss thing...

:::patience is a virtue:::

hillary

[Veej007]

bump? it's been a couple months...

[TapeOpHillary]

i just emailed ryan about it again...
thanks for yr patience!

[leigh]

i've never had any trouble finding out what i needed with the search function.

Good for you. However, as was mentioned here, two-letter words are ignored, so some time if you need to search for "xy", "3d", "ab", etc, you'll feel the pinch.

Also, no capability to seach for phrases can slow things down.

The downside with Google is that you have to wait for their search engine to index the pages, rather than having all content immediately available with a local search. That takes Google, what, a week on average?

Leigh