quote:

---

Something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/asp/highlight.asp

you could use the function mentioned in that article to process the Topic subject and the Topic and reply messages.

---

quote:

---

How about, eventually, having it highlight the searched out words.

-Mark-
__________________
That which fascinates us, is in fact true.

---

quote:

---

Working on it now. I am going to release SuperSearch 2.0 first. It has a complete reworking of the query and adds a 'max recs to display' option and some other items. I've been playing around with the highlighting code and it looks like a go so will add that after 2.0

---

quote:

---

mfindlay,

I have put the beta version 2 in, but thought that I would let you know that you for got to change the 'form action' tag to search.asp. It was looking for test_search.asp.

Apart from that no issues with putting it in.

quote:

---

Working on it now. I am going to release SuperSearch 2.0 first. It has a complete reworking of the query and adds a 'max recs to display' option and some other items. I've been playing around with the highlighting code and it looks like a go so will add that after 2.0

---

Regards,

Webmaster @ Classic Motor Cycling
Classic Motor Cycling

---

quote:

---

Mark,

I got the highlighting to work, but I used inline styles to have a different color background. Basically the colors are just reversed for the highlighted words. I've got it working in the topic message and reply message, but just for the individual words right now. I've still got to add in an if/then for if the user is searching for a phrase and pass that variable on to topic.asp. Also need to add the highlighting code to the Topic subject as well.

---

quote:

---

good job awesome mod!

when are you going to release the next version? with word highlights

---

keywords = split(Request.QueryString("searchwords"), " ")
myText = formatStr(rs("T_MESSAGE"))
strStart = "<font style=""background-color:" & strForumFontColor & "; color:" & strForumFirstCellColor & ";"">"
For Each word in keywords
	myText = Highlight(myText, word, strStart, "</font>")
Next %>

keywords = split(Request.QueryString("searchwords"), " ")
myText = formatStr(rs("R_MESSAGE"))
strStart = "<font style=""background-color:" & strForumFontColor & "; color:" & CColor & ";"">"
For Each word in keywords
	myText = Highlight(myText, word, strStart, "</font>")
Next %>

quote:

---

question:

will the highlight work on asian languages? e.g. no space between words/centence, diff comma, period etc.

this is in a low priority.

---

quote:

---

Problems with the highlighting that I have come across with testing it myself is with single letters. Try doing a search for: h for example. Then view the posts. It messes up the HTML tags in the messages. Maybe just check for the length of the searchword, if it's 1 character, then don't process the highlight code?

Here is what I use in the topics:

keywords = split(Request.QueryString("searchwords"), " ")
myText = formatStr(rs("T_MESSAGE"))
strStart = "<font style=""background-color:" & strForumFontColor & "; color:" & strForumFirstCellColor & ";"">"
For Each word in keywords
	myText = Highlight(myText, word, strStart, "</font>")
Next %>

Here is what I use in the replies:

keywords = split(Request.QueryString("searchwords"), " ")
myText = formatStr(rs("R_MESSAGE"))
strStart = "<font style=""background-color:" & strForumFontColor & "; color:" & CColor & ";"">"
For Each word in keywords
	myText = Highlight(myText, word, strStart, "</font>")
Next %>

That way with both the Topic and the Replies the highlight font is the same color as the cell background color and the background highlight is the same color as the message font. Of course there are probably browsers that don't like inline styles. You could also define .highlight1 & .highlight2 in the CSS portion of inc_top.asp and then just use class=highlight1 or class=highlight2.

---