• Registered: 2007-12-26
  • Posts: 57

Topic: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

Is there an easy way to prevent a particular forum from showing up in search results?

I want people to still have permissions to the forum, just no appear in search results such as "action=show_24h".

  • sirena
  • sirena
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  • Registered: 2006-04-06
  • Posts: 473

Re: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

Which search results?
Search results from an external search engine like Google?
Or search results from the internal Punbb search system?

  • Slavok
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  • Registered: 2008-06-11
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Re: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

You can limit the forums to be searched at line 125 of "<FORUM_ROOT>/search.php" by editing the value of $forum_sql variable.

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  • Registered: 2007-12-26
  • Posts: 57

Re: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

Thanks Slavok, I'll give that a go.

  • Registered: 2006-02-26
  • Posts: 22

Re: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

Slavok wrote:

You can limit the forums to be searched at line 125 of "<FORUM_ROOT>/search.php" by editing the value of $forum_sql variable.

I'm sorry, but change the value from what to what?

  • Registered: 2006-02-26
  • Posts: 22

Re: Prevent forum from showing up in search results

Slavok wrote:

You can limit the forums to be searched at line 125 of "<FORUM_ROOT>/search.php" by editing the value of $forum_sql variable.

I'm sorry, but change the value from what to what?