IPB and search by forum_id

[mystified]

I have a php mod that I'm using on an Invision Power Board. It's to search for unanswered topics. The problem is that it was designed to search for "all" and I need to be able to filter them by forum_id.

This is what I had:

        $this->ipsclass->input['forums']  = '7 9 10 31 19 26 28 13 15 20 48 21 16 52';
 
 
        $forums = $this->get_searchable_forums();
 
        $mid    = intval($this->ipsclass->input['mid']);
 

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But now it's only searching the first forum and ignoring the rest. How do I get it to include all forums I listed?

Thanks

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I'm mystified too.
I suggest you study how this 'IPB' class works.
It is impossible to solve without this knowledge and I have never heard of it

[mystified]

This is the mod if it helps:

function get_unanswered()
 
    {
 
 
    //-----------------------------------------
        // Do we have flood control enabled?
        //-----------------------------------------
 
        if ($this->ipsclass->member['g_search_flood'] > 0)
        {
            $flood_time = time() - $this->ipsclass->member['g_search_flood'];
 
            //-----------------------------------------
            // Get any old search results..
            //-----------------------------------------
 
            $this->ipsclass->DB->simple_construct( array( 'select' => 'id',
                                                            'from'   => 'search_results',
                                                            'where'  => "(member_id='".$this->ipsclass->member['id']."' OR ip_address='".$this->ipsclass->input['IP_ADDRESS']."') AND search_date > '$flood_time'" ) );
            $this->ipsclass->DB->simple_exec();
 
            if ( $this->ipsclass->DB->get_num_rows() )
            {
                $this->ipsclass->Error( array( 'LEVEL' => 1, 'MSG' => 'search_flood', 'EXTRA' => $this->ipsclass->member['g_search_flood']) );
            }
        }
 
        $this->ipsclass->input['forums'] = 'all';
 
        $forums = $this->get_searchable_forums();
 
        $mid    = intval($this->ipsclass->input['mid']);
 
        //-----------------------------------------
        // Do we have any forums to search in?
        //-----------------------------------------
 
        if ($forums == "")
        {
            $this->ipsclass->Error( array( 'LEVEL' => 1, 'MSG' => 'no_search_forum') );
        }
 
 
        //-----------------------------------------
        // Get the topic ID's to serialize and store into
        // the database
        //-----------------------------------------
 
 
        $this->ipsclass->DB->simple_construct( array( 'select' => 'count(*) as count', 'from' => 'topics t', 'where' => "t.approved=1 AND t.forum_id IN($forums) AND t.posts=0" ) );
        $this->ipsclass->DB->simple_exec();
 
        $row = $this->ipsclass->DB->fetch_row();
 
        $results = intval($row['count']);
 
        //-----------------------------------------
        // Do we have any results?
        //-----------------------------------------
 
        if ( ! $results )
        {
            $this->ipsclass->Error( array( 'LEVEL' => 1, 'MSG' => 'no_search_results' ) );
        }
 
        //-----------------------------------------
        // Cache query
        //-----------------------------------------
 
 
 
        $this->ipsclass->DB->simple_construct( array( 'select' => 't.*, t.title as topic_title',
                                      'from'   => 'topics t',
                                      'where'  => "t.approved=1 AND t.forum_id IN($forums) AND t.posts=0",
                                      'order'  => "t.last_post DESC" ) );
 
 
        $query_to_cache = $this->ipsclass->DB->cur_query;
        $this->ipsclass->DB->flush_query();
 
        //-----------------------------------------
        // If we are still here, store the data into the database...
        //-----------------------------------------
 
        $unique_id = md5(uniqid(microtime(),1));
 
        $this->ipsclass->DB->do_insert( 'search_results', array (
                                                  'id'          => $unique_id,
                                                  'search_date' => time(),
                                                  'post_max'    => $results,
                                                  'sort_key'    => $this->sort_key,
                                                  'sort_order'  => $this->sort_order,
                                                  'member_id'   => $this->ipsclass->member['id'],
                                                  'ip_address'  => $this->ipsclass->input['IP_ADDRESS'],
                                                  'query_cache' => $query_to_cache
                                         )        );
 
        $this->ipsclass->boink_it( $this->ipsclass->base_url."act=Search&nav=au&CODE=show&searchid=$unique_id&search_in=topics&result_type=topics" );
 
 
    }
 
 

If you look you can see where it is set to search forum = 'all'
What I am trying to get it to do is search by the unique id of each forum. It was working and then it stopped and I have no idea why. Is there anyway to get it to search all forums instead of just the first one using php code?

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I don't quite understand your problem and honestly don't have time to wade through lots of code. If you can narrow down and define the problem I will gladly help if I can