Need help: Excluding Forums from search when searching for 0 reply threads

[StarBuG]

Hi

Since 4.0.4 the ability to search for threads with 0 replies was added again.
However for this search the exclusion of forums parameter does not work.

this url should work but the exclusion does not:

search.php?do=process&contenttype=vBForum_Post&replyless=1&replylimit=0&exclude=10,15

Bug Issued: klick

If anyone can tell me how to fix this that would really be appreciated.
Waiting another 2+ month for a fix would be painful.

This is THE most needed feature in my medical help forum that is broken since the upgrade to the 4 series

Please help me

StarBuG

[LeeRain]

Hey StarBuG
I can't access http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-7593,so i can't help you

[Ceri May]

Hey Starbug,

The correct URL would be

/search.php?do=process&contenttypeid=1&replyless=1&replylimit=0&exclude=10,15

You need to use contenttypeid=1 instead of contenttype for more complex searches like these.

In case it help also

'^search\.php\?do=process&contenttypeid=1&replyless=1&replylimit=0&exclude=10,15$' => '/search/noreply/'

would be an example CRR for this and similar to what I use.

Ceri

[StarBuG]

what is the difference between "contenttypeid=1" and "contenttype=vBForum_Post"

Returns exactly the same result ?

[Ceri May]

I don't know that would be a question for vB... I simply found the correct code by inspecting the search form and checking the fields used on the "Search Single Content Type" and it uses contenttypeid where as contenttype is used on "Search Multiple Content Types" and doesn't work for what you are trying to do.

Ceri

[StarBuG]

Both work and return exactly the same result

by the way for whom it is interesting:

The fix for the exclusion bug is:

edit the file search.php and find:

$search_type->add_advanced_search_filters($criteria, $vbulletin);

Add below:

$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
        'exclude'    => TYPE_NOHTML,
        'include'    => TYPE_NOHTML
    ));
    if ($vbulletin->GPC['include'])
    {
        $list = explode(',', $vbulletin->GPC['include']);
        if (is_array($list))
        {
            $list = array_map('intval', $list);
            $criteria->add_forumid_filter($list, false);
        }
    }
    if ($vbulletin->GPC['exclude'])
    {
        $list = explode(',', $vbulletin->GPC['exclude']);
        if (is_array($list))
        {
            $list = array_map('intval', $list);
            $criteria->add_excludeforumid_filter($list);
        }
    }

(you have to add this two times, for do=process and for do=finduser)

Bug: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-7789