Show Search Keywords on results page

me3020 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 13

I would find the forum to be much more helpful if it showed what keywords I used for my search on the results page. For just doing quick searches it is no big deal, but when you did one search 15 min ago, and have 6 mozilla tabs open looking at posts, you tend to forget what you typed in. Or, if you have 2 tabs open each doing different searches, you forget which search goes in which window.

I think it would be a quick hack to phpbb.
Sound good?
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Earthwings · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject:

One should also make it bigger, you can't fill in a proper search query - people tend to ignore too small input fields for psychological reasons. no joke here.

Even greater would be indexing 3-letter-words, but I'm afraid this is an old discussion :-)

krusty_ar · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject:

This is a standard answer writen in a polite manner:

gentoo forums site admins or moderators have nothing to do with phpbb developement, so any request of this kind should be addressed to phpbb devs.
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masseya · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Well something you can do that might help you with this is to change the radio button in the lower left hand corner on the advanced search page to display results as posts rather than topics. This will allow the first several hundred characters of the post to be displayed in the results window. Many of the search terms will appear in there and you should be able to tell what you searched for rather easiliy.
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