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Found how to link to search results
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Originally Posted by StevieG
Linking search results will not work, but you can assemble a link that will replicate your search parameters if you want. A little techy, but we're all smart advantage gamblers, here, right? 
For example, this link makes a search for "bankroll" across all General Poker forums:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=bankroll&f orumchoice[]=2
What we are doing here with the link is putting the form parameters into a query string, which is everything that comes after the question mark. A query string is made up of mulitple parameter-value pairs, separated by ampersands (&). The parameter-calue pairs take the form name=value.
If you want to assemble a link like this yourself, here are the most important parameters for the query string, in my opinion:
For example, this link makes a search for "bankroll" across all General Poker forums:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=bankroll&f orumchoice[]=2
What we are doing here with the link is putting the form parameters into a query string, which is everything that comes after the question mark. A query string is made up of mulitple parameter-value pairs, separated by ampersands (&). The parameter-calue pairs take the form name=value.
If you want to assemble a link like this yourself, here are the most important parameters for the query string, in my opinion:
- do is the most important one, and you want this to be do=process. Without this you will pre-populate the form, but not get the results.
- query is the search term. If you need to do multiple terms, separate them with a + sign, that acts like a space inside a query string.
- titleonly has two possible values, 1 means search titles only, 0 means search whole posts.
- forumchoice[] tells the search which forum to search. 0 means search all, but you can also search a specific forum like 27 for B&M, or a group of forums, like 2 for General Poker as used in the link above. You can find the number for a forum by mousing over the link in the left hand side menu, it is the number after the f= part. Note the brackets are necessary. If you want to search multiple specific forums, just put in multiple forumchoice[] items. This link will give a search for Virginia in B&M and Home Poker:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/search.php?do=process&titleonly=1&query=virginia&f orumchoice[]=27&forumchoice[]=24