Some of our forum members are wingeing about the fact that the search functions of our webwiz forum are too basic  and they want something more advanced (I think they are using this as an excuse, because they may be too lazy to search for something ).

 

To try and appease them , I was wondering - is there any way of adding more advanced search features/criteria? Like maybe searching within a post? Or being able to narrow the search down by date? Is there any boolean logic etc?

 

BTW: are there any related mods that can be installed?

 

Many thanks

 

dj air wrote: i mean you can select to look within the messages within a search.

 

Ah yes, but I was thinking of something a little more sophisticated, so it would allow you to jump to the match within the message rather than make you scroll through many (sometimes hundreds) of posts.

 

dj air wrote: the narrow down of search results isn't integrated but maybe do able, not 100% sure is that easy, unless you filter once then filter that again.

 

Filtering post-search would be an excellent feature - especially when you get many returned topics.

 

dj air wrote: i think boRg was saying he will look into re writing it

 

That would be great if boRg could add some more functionality .

 

I was wondering how easy it would be to add some of the features found in php forums etc.

 

dj air wrote: when using " " within google it uses the phrase option thats in the forum function.

 

Yes, but google is more sophisticated with it's search queries - you can specify certain words, exclude others and use phrases all within a single search (in other words a combination).

 

I suppose I was hoping that someone had already added some extra features by modding the source code.

 

PS: As this is a moderated forum, does that mean that someone has to manually inspect every single post made (apart from those originating from moderators)? That's a lot of work for someone .