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I am moving this google.com search stuff to the top of this thread because it seems that many don't ever get to the bottom.
If you find that the search tool here is not to your liking, you can always use Google.com. By searching using "site:blazerforum.com" (without quotes) along with your search term, it will return site specific results.
And Google allows you to use '+' and '-' to further refine your search as well as quotes to search for identical phrases.
Now, on with the vBulletin specific information:
In case anyone might get to wondering what wild card operators will work with the fulltext boolean search in vB...
+ A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
- A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the rows that are returned.
(no wild card) By default (when neither + nor - is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it are rated higher. This mimics the behavior of MATCH() ... AGAINST() without the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier.
> < These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The > operator increases the contribution and the < operator decreases it. See the example below.
( ) Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested.
~ A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row's relevance to be negative. This is useful for marking “noise” words. A row containing such a word is rated lower than others, but is not excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator.
* The asterisk serves as the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word to be affected.
" A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (‘"’) characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. The full-text engine splits the phrase into words, performs a search in the FULLTEXT index for the words. The engine then performs a substring search for the phrase in the records that are found, so the match must include non-word characters in the phrase. For example, "test phrase" does not match "test, phrase".
If the phrase contains no words that are in the index, the result is empty. For example, if all words are either stopwords or shorter than the minimum length of indexed words, the result is empty.
'apple banana' Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
'+apple +juice' Find rows that contain both words.
'+apple macintosh' Find rows that contain the word “apple”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “macintosh”.
'+apple -macintosh' Find rows that contain the word “apple” but not “macintosh”.
'+apple +(>turnover <strudel)' Find rows that contain the words “apple” and “turnover”, or “apple” and “strudel” (in any order), but rank “apple turnover” higher than “apple strudel”.
'apple*' Find rows that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”.
'"some words"' Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the ‘"’ characters that surround the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that surround the search string itself.
Some words are ignored in full-text searches:
Any word that is too short is ignored. The default minimum length of words that are found by full-text searches is four characters.
Words in the stopword list are ignored. A stopword is a word such as “the” or “some” that is so common that it is considered to have zero semantic value. There is a built-in stopword list, but it can be overwritten by a user-defined list.
You can also search through URL:
You can submit a search to vBulletin with a URL, just like you can with the search form. The basic URL is:
Where searchword is the word for which you are searching.
Here is a list of the extra search parameters you can add to the URL. When you add a search parameter to the URL you need to add this to the end of the URL:
&variable_name=value
Search field: Search by Key Word
Variable name: titleonly
Values:
0 = Search Entire Posts
1 = Search Titles Only
Search field: Search by User Name
Variable name: searchuser
Values: Enter a username
Variable name: starteronly
Values:
0 = Find Posts by User
1 = Find Threads Started by User
Variable name: exactname
Values:
0 = Partial name
1 = Exact name
Search field: Find Threads with
Variable name: replyless
Values:
0 = At Least
1 = At Most
Variable name: replylimit
Values: Any integer values
Search field: Find Posts from
Variable name: searchdate
Values:
0 = Any Date
lastvisit = Your Last Visit
1 = Yesterday
7 = A Week Ago
14 = 2 Weeks Ago
30 = A Month Ago
90 = 3 Months Ago
180 = 6 Months Ago
365 = A Year Ago
Variable name: beforeafter
Values:
after = and Newer
before = and Older
Search field: Sort Results by
Variable name: sortby
Values:
rank = Relevancy
title = Title
replycount = Number of Replies
views = Number of Views
threadstart = Thread Start Date
lastpost = Last Posting Date
postusername = User Name
forum = Forum
Variable name: order
Values:
descending = in Descending Order
ascending = in Ascending Order
Search field: Show Results as
Variable name: showposts
Values:
0 = Show Results as Threads
1 = Show Results as Posts
Search field: Search in Forum(s)
Variable name: forumchoice[]
Values: Do not include this variable in the URL to search all forums. If you want to search specific forums then you need to add an instance for each forumid. For example:
&forumchoice[]=X&forumchoice[]=Y&forumchoice[]=Z
Where X, Y, and Z are the forumids of the forums in which you want to search.
Variable name: childforums
Values:
0 = Do not search in child forums
1 = Also search in child forums
These are generic vBulletin search routines collected from various different places on the net. The first section was from vBulletin-Faq.com and the second from vBulletin.com. They both should work, but depending on the settings instituted, some areas may return errors. If you find errors in the information presented above, please create a thread in the Help & Suggestions Center and the staff will check it out.
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Guidelines for Using SEARCH
