Hello!
Since I use the comments-search on shacknews.com a
lot I have added a search for it.
Find it attached.
?shack for help :)
Thanks!
Wolfgang
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<search function="shack"> <name>Shacknews.com Comments</name> <description> Search the shacknews.com comments database
<div class="helpboxDescLabels">Switches:</div> <table class="helpboxDescTable"> <tr><td>/user:username</td><td> - </td><td>Narrow search to username. If the username. Replace blanks in username with + (fex: Steve Gibson becomes Steve+Gibson)</td></tr> <tr><td>/db:database</td><td> - </td><td>Database to use. Default is current, possible values: current, archive1</td></tr> <tr><td>/type:type</td><td> - </td><td>Narrow search to post type. Default is all, possible values: all, i (informative), n (NWS)</td></tr> <tr><td>/sortby:key</td><td> - </td><td>Sort results by key. Default is date, possible values: date, relevance</td></tr> </table> <div class="helpboxDescLabels">Examples:</div> <table class="helpboxDescTable"> <tr><td>shack 1942 /type:i </td></tr> <tr><td>shack Doom3 /type:all</td></tr> <tr><td>shack poop /user:Steve+Gibson</td></tr> </table> </description> <category>Other</category> <link>http://www.shacknews.com/</link> <contributor>Wolfgang Deutsch</contributor> <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> <script><![CDATA[ // Default switches. Change as desired var defaultQuery=""; var defaultUser=""; var defaultDb="current"; var defaultType="all"; var defaultSort="date"; // Possible values for switches var switchValues = []; switchValues["db"] = "current archive1"; switchValues["type"] = "all i n"; switchValues["sortby"] = "relevance date"; function shack(q) { if (nullArgs("shack", q)) return false; var params = []; params["query"] = new Array("query=", defaultQuery); params["user"] = new Array("&user=", defaultUser); params["db"] = new Array("&db=", defaultDb); params["type"] = new Array("&type=", defaultType); params["sortby"] = new Array("&sortby=", defaultSort); var args = parseArgs(q, "user, db, type, sortby"); var url = "http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/search.x?"; for (var i = 0; i < args.switches.length; i++) { var sw = args.switches[i]; switch (sw.name) { case "user": if( sw.value == "" ) { nullArgs("shack","?"); return false; } else { params["user"][1] = sw.value; } break; default: if (sw.value=="" || switchValues[sw.name].indexOf(sw.value)==-1) { nullArgs("shack","?"); return false; } else { params[sw.name][1] = sw.value; } break; } } if (args.switches.length == 0) { params["query"][1] = q; } else { params["query"][1] += args.q; } url += params["query"].join(''); url += params["user"].join(''); url += params["db"].join(''); url += params["type"].join(''); url += params["sortby"].join(''); openSearchWindow(url); } ]]></script> <copyright> Copyright (c) 2002 David Bau Distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt) </copyright> </search>