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    Originally posted by The Man
    The point is that *I* can't, and that should be all that matters.
    When you put it that way...

    *withdraws support for the hack* **


    **No, Shlup, not seriously

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    *takes it seriously anyway*

    Oh well, guess I don't get another chance to scew over the enitre board.

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    i think having a member search is a great idea. make things easyer it defenately will
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    Ah, gotta love those hacks that we really don't need. By the way, can we have it so that all the male members show up with one colour, and the females have the other? >=]
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    How about the members that like to confuse people about their gender with weird upside down question marks?

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    Nonono, it gets turned into an option in the profile settings. I'm sure there are a bunch of other hacks I could think up, just gimme a bit of time >=]

    *annoys some people by bringing it up*
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    Oh yeah, I tried this and it made the whole members page come up as a white page of death, by the way.

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    This sounds like a huge improvement.

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    Haha it turns out you don't need to hack anything for this. Just go into the template and add this:

    <!-- quick search and memberlist title -->

    <form action="memberlist.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="getall">

    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#000000" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td>
    <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#012033" colspan="6">

    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr id="cat">
    <td><largefont>$[/i]bbtitle Members List</largefont></td><td align="right">

    <smallfont><b>Quick Username Search:</b>
    <input type="text" class="bginput" size="35" name="ausername" value="" style="font-size: 11px;">
    <input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Go!" accesskey="s" style="font-size: 11px;"></font></td>

    </form>

    </tr></table></td>

    <!--/quick search and memberlist title-->
    in place of the memberlist title table data cell.

    That'll give you something along the lines of:

    $bbtitle Members ListQuick Username Search:

    Good times.
    Last edited by The Man; 03-31-2003 at 09:56 PM.
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    G'job there Aaron. Doing it without hacking is the best thing.

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    I don't think you guys need to do it at all. Not only can you search alphabetically, but you can also click ppls names at the main index if they are online, you can click to view someones if they just posted as the last person in a thread, and you can also just click to view with the profile button at the bottom of each persons post. Isn't that enough ways? :fd:

    Originally Posted by The Man
    ...A quick username search would require fewer pages than going to the advanced search and searching, manually trying to find the user, or manually trying to find one of the user's posts. Practically each page we load gives us a pop-up ad these days. Pop-up ads are a PAIN IN THE ASS...
    Vaild points. *agrees* It could be helpful if you aren't wanting to look at someone's immediate profile. Such as if you just wanted to see something about a person who just posted vs. looking for someone you don't know or aren't sure of thier name etc. I see now :fd:
    Last edited by Moomba Misstress; 04-02-2003 at 08:54 AM.

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    Let's look at it this way: A quick username search would require fewer pages than going to the advanced search and searching, manually trying to find the user, or manually trying to find one of the user's posts. Practically each page we load gives us a pop-up ad these days. Pop-up ads are a PAIN IN THE ASS, not only because we have to close them but because they cause Internet Explorer to experience about a ten-second delay each time it executes the script to load a pop-up window. Thus, making a SMALL template modification to allow users to find members right on the memberlist would save a very large number of people a very sizable amount of grief. I support it.
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    You would have to tell me exactly where to put that before I can do it.

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    <!-- quick search and memberlist title -->

    <form action="memberlist.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="getall">

    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#000000" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td>
    <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#012033" colspan="6">

    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr id="cat">
    <td><largefont>$[/i]bbtitle Members List</largefont></td><td align="right">

    <smallfont><b>Quick Username Search:</b>
    <input type="text" class="bginput" size="35" name="ausername" value="" style="font-size: 11px;">
    <input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Go!" accesskey="s" style="font-size: 11px;"></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>

    </form>


    <!--/quick search and memberlist title-->
    in place of

    <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
    <tr>
    <td width="100%"><img src="{imagesfolder}/vb_bullet.gif" alt="" border="0" align="absmiddle">
    <normalfont><b><a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a> &gt;
    Members List</b></normalfont></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    I think that'll do it. (Use the code from the second example, not the first one).
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    ;_; nobody got my point.

    What happened to the 'no hacks coz once we let Manny have one he'll come up with another' rule?
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