member search

[Ancient Dragon]

How do I search for specific member name? Putting the name in the Search box doesn't work. I tried "<member name>" and "Daniweb: <member name>". google found the name but not at daniweb.

[Dani]

Currently this is a moderator-only feature, although it really needs to be retooled to work for everybody. (The search results are currently moderator-centric with information about the member's infractions, etc.) Perhaps I'll work on doing that tomorrow.

[Ancient Dragon]

All I want is their public profile page.

[Dani]

No, i understand, but what happens when you do a search is there needs to be a search results page that shows all the possible [partial-word] matches. The problem is that results page currently isn't conducive to non-moderators.

[cereal]

@AD right now you can try with:

member "dani" site:daniweb.com

On the google search bar seems to work. Bye!

[Ancient Dragon]

That gives me too much crap that I'm not interested in, and still doesn't lead me to Dani's public profile page.

Dani: Can't you just add a simple member search button that does nothing but take me to the member's public profile? I don't want to see thousands of google links that do nothing.

[Dani]

AD, I think you're misunderstanding ;) Once I code it up you'll see what I mean.

[Reverend Jim]

You could always google and include a string that is found on the profile page like

dani last seen site:daniweb.com

The link containing /members/ should be at the top of the results

[Dani]

OK, member search functionality has been built into the main search now. (Moderators still have access to the more feature rich version)

[rishif2]

its really working for ordinary users also.

but it can be improved as i notice that it shows maximum 5 user and there may be more than 5 who satisfy the condition

like name like

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thanx

[Ancient Dragon]

Great! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for adding that.