Restore Search Functionality in BBtoNuke 2.0.13 ->

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:15 pm

I don't know about you, but here's an 'improvement' to phpBB I personally didn't care for...

Quote:

l.iii. Changes since 2.0.13
Hardened author and keyword search a bit to not allow very server intensive searches

I constantly use 'search' by placing an asterisk in the author field, clicking on "1 day", "view as posts", and "all available".

Before 2.0.13 I used to be able to see all the posts for the day in reverse chronological order, just to ensure I didn't miss seeing anything that might be interesting/important.

Why the heck did they change the allowable search parameters without making it an Admin option? *I* wasn't having a server load issue, were you?!?!?!

Anyway, I decided to reverse this nonsense...

In 'modules/Forums/search.php'

Find and delete:

Code:

            if (preg_match('#^[\*%]+$#', trim($search_author)) || preg_match('#^[^\*]{1,2}$#', str_replace(array('*', '%'), '', trim($search_author))))


            {


               $search_author = '';


            }

Code:

            if (preg_match('#^[\*%]+$#', trim($split_search[$i])) || preg_match('#^[^\*]{1,2}$#', str_replace(array('*', '%'), '', trim($split_search[$i]))))


            {


               $split_search[$i] = '';


               continue;


            }

Code:

         if (preg_match('#^[\*%]+$#', trim($search_author)) || preg_match('#^[^\*]{1,2}$#', str_replace(array('*', '%'), '', trim($search_author))))


         {


            $search_author = '';


         }

End of 'problem'... Groovy

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:19 pm

There are a lot of changes in the phpbb upgrades recently that I am suspicious of. When I find proof... I will get some sleep...

-sting