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Started by Guest_BTDarters_* , Apr 01 2009 06:16 AM

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#1 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 01 April 2009 - 06:16 AM

Is it possible to search for any posts 7 days old and newer? I tried to do this from the search page and got the error, "search keywords must be 3 or more characters...". What if I don't want to use keywords?

Brian

#2 Guest_Jim_*

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Posted 01 April 2009 - 07:15 AM

I just tried that, i entered a section to search, the time period, and my own name for searching, But No Keyword, for a 7 day and newer time period and it worked. but without a certain ammount of specific info it seems to NOT work.

#3 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 01:17 AM

May have possibly found a work-around. I found that if I search for posts with the word "fish" that are 7 days old and newer, I get a good representation of posts. I suppose "*fish*" would probably work even better. I'll have to give that a try.

Brian

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Brian J. Torreano - Owner
BTDarters
American-Native Fish for your aquarium...and more!
Web: http://www.btdarters.com
Email: bt@btdarters.com
Phone: (262) 268-7489

Edit: Added signature line :rolleyes:

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Edited by BTDarters, 13 April 2009 - 01:18 AM.

#4 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 01:35 AM

Yep, "*fish*" works better. Strange, though, as it picked-up threads that "fish" should have. Hmmmm. :-k

Brian

Brian J. Torreano - Owner
BTDarters
American-Native Fish for your aquarium...and more!
Web: http://www.btdarters.com
Email: bt@btdarters.com
Phone: (262) 268-7489

#5 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 14 April 2009 - 06:53 PM

I would think "the" would pick up almost everything.

#6 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 14 April 2009 - 09:46 PM

Good point!

Brian

Brian J. Torreano - Owner
BTDarters
American Native Fish for
your aquarium...and more!
Web: http://www.btdarters.com
Email: bt@btdarters.com
Phone: (262) 268-7489

#7 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 01:34 AM

I tried searching with "the" as the keyword, and it didn't work! I got a "your search on that keyword produced no results" error.

Brian

Brian J. Torreano - Owner
BTDarters
American Native Fish for
your aquarium...and more!
Web: http://www.btdarters.com
Email: bt@btdarters.com
Phone: (262) 268-7489

#8 Guest_Uland_*

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Posted 19 April 2009 - 10:47 AM

"the" isn't really what you wanted to search is it?
When the forum was new or young rather, things were simple. Very little subject matter to sort. As the forum advanced so does our need to use the "advanced search" function. The search function is not as good as google but it can dig up the information you want with a little effort using the advanced search. http://forum.nanfa.o...&...E=01&HID=10 & Please also see the "advanced usage help" link when in the advanced search help. The advanced usage help tips are very important to use when searching.

#9 Guest_khudgins_*

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Posted 20 April 2009 - 10:30 AM

If I'm right about how the back-end of this here forum works, the search is done by a MySQL database full-text search. The default setting is to have a threshold of 4 letters in relevant words (Kinda like significant digits, only with letters). So 'the' won't work, but 'fish' will. And '*fish*' will find sunfish and fishfood, where plain 'fish' won't.

#10 Guest_bullhead_*

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Posted 20 April 2009 - 07:20 PM

So Brian's error message ("search keywords must be 3 or more characters...") is a bit misleading.

#11 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 21 April 2009 - 09:56 PM

I tried different stuff to bring up all posts in the last 7 days and couldn't do it. Some things work better than others but still...

#12 Guest_schambers_*

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Posted 22 April 2009 - 12:31 PM

Have you tried Google Advanced Search? Here's the query:

http://www.google.co...amp;safe=images

It's simpler than it looks, what you are doing is selecting "site:forum.nanfa.org", then using the "Date: (how recent the page is)" drop menu to select "past week". The Date selection is limited, you can pick "anytime", "last 24 hours", "past week", "past month", and "past year". No keyword is needed. I didn't take the time to make sure the results were correct.