matthepepe
12-25-2002, 02:20 PM
Some of you may not even realise this is even in place, but today i found a small hack on a vbulletin website that adds a helpful search tool.
below is a description of what it does right off of the other forums.
Say a user goes to your forum, and is looking for something specific and quick. Perhaps your forum is a Tolkien based forum...and the user was looking for information on Gandalf, the user could go to http://www.yourforum.com/gandalf, and a search would be generated. Basically what this hack does is it uses GET data as POST data in what would be submitted by search.php.
basically that means that if a user types in the url of a directory that doesnt exist it is going to search for the word that they had on the end. Kind of neat and might help for those links you sometimes get from a search engine that are dead. With this in action it will do a search instaed of giving them a page not found.
below is a description of what it does right off of the other forums.
Say a user goes to your forum, and is looking for something specific and quick. Perhaps your forum is a Tolkien based forum...and the user was looking for information on Gandalf, the user could go to http://www.yourforum.com/gandalf, and a search would be generated. Basically what this hack does is it uses GET data as POST data in what would be submitted by search.php.
basically that means that if a user types in the url of a directory that doesnt exist it is going to search for the word that they had on the end. Kind of neat and might help for those links you sometimes get from a search engine that are dead. With this in action it will do a search instaed of giving them a page not found.