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betheball
Starting Member
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 Posted - 22 May 2003 : 18:07:03
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I am a FrontPage user. One of the sites I visit frequently is www.frontpagewebmaster.com. Their forum is provided by ASPPlayground.net. One feature they have that I would love to see here has to do with search results. When you do a search, the results list each post, rather than just the topic. Here is an example: www.frontpagewebmaster.com/searchpro.asp?appid=&phrase=case" target="_blank">http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/searchpro.asp?appid=&phrase=case
My only complaint with the snitz forum is when I do a search and one of my results happens to be a topic that has grown to 10-20 pages. At that point I often give up because with my terrible dial-up connection, I just don't have time to page through to find the actual post that contains my search term.
Being in essence an ASP moron, I do not know how hard it would be to create search results like what I just mentioned, but it would be great for those loooong topics.
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- Duane
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
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Posted - 22 May 2003 : 19:17:48
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the link you are using as an example looks similar to Snitz search results. all i see are the topic titles and not the actual post. am i missing something?
regardless, is what you want to be able to click on the link and jump to the first occurance of the search word? |
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 22 May 2003 : 19:36:48
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I think it's a good Idea, and might not be to hard to implement, just add another way to search in the drop-down menu (By Subject, or By Entire thread).
Nikkol,
See how they say 'RE: subject' that means its a post, not a full thread, IMO it would be better to jump to the first word. |
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betheball
Starting Member
USA
41 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2003 : 20:05:15
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| What Dave is saying is correct. In my example, each post is treated as a separate item. For example, a search result here will just bring back the thread eventhough the search word(s) may occur in 6 different posts in that thread. In the example shown in my first post, each post will show up in the search results, not just the thread. So even if my search term was only in the one thread, I would get six results, one for each post. I imagine there is some sort of bookmarking or similar function going on. Anyway, just a thought. For short threads it really isn't that helpful, but for longer ones it can make life easier. |
- Duane
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 22 May 2003 : 20:11:05
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| yes, but what shows in the example you gave is just the title of the post. on snitz, replies do not have their own titles. It may be possible to do; you'd need to look at the sql statement in search.asp and modify it to select the first occurance of the word(s) and bring back the reply id if it is a reply. Then, I believe the link to the topic could be modified to include the bookmark of the reply using it's id. |
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jeffery
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 24 July 2003 : 13:00:42
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I've seen a simliar thing too.
They'll have the header (in our case would be the topic subject) and then an excerpt of text which is probably the first x number of characters.
In our case, we'd have to do a UNION on the TOPIC & REPLY table, include a field identifying which table the record came from (t for topic, r for reply). Then do you try to keep the topic and replies together or order by date and let them show up in whatever order they're returned?
Interesting. |
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