Possible to subscribe a search?

MyE28.com Forum system comments and questions. Please post registration, login, or general forum usage problems here.
Post Reply
Jan E-28
Posts: 79
Joined: Jul 07, 2010 12:35 PM
Location: Norway

Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by Jan E-28 »

To get a notice every time a new post matching the search get posted.

Cant find how anywhere. Would be nice if its possible.
mooseheadm5
Beamter
Beamter
Posts: 23035
Joined: Apr 08, 2009 10:30 PM
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Contact:

Re: Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by mooseheadm5 »

I am not aware of a way to do this with this forum software. It may be possible to set up something through Google for an alert, but I've never tried.
Jeremy
Beamter
Beamter
Posts: 15841
Joined: Feb 12, 2006 12:00 PM
Location: Connecticut

Re: Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by Jeremy »

This would require the forum to run a new search every time anyone makes or edits a post and then send out e-mails matching certain parameters. It would be intensive for the software and is not a feature that I've seen (but I haven't seen everything) implemented on any forum software. Likely for the mentioned reason.
wkohler
Posts: 50921
Joined: Oct 05, 2006 11:04 PM
Location: Phönix, Arizona, USA
Contact:

Re: Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by wkohler »

RSS feed?
Jeremy
Beamter
Beamter
Posts: 15841
Joined: Feb 12, 2006 12:00 PM
Location: Connecticut

Re: Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by Jeremy »

The prior version of phpBB had an option for that, I'm not sure if it's there in the current version or not. I remember being told that it ate up a lot of server CPU cycles to run that last time I inquired about it.

Does anybody even use RSS feeds anymore?
WilNJ
Posts: 4193
Joined: Aug 12, 2009 11:22 AM
Location: North Jersey

Re: Possible to subscribe a search?

Post by WilNJ »

Google alerts is probably your best bet. I believe you can set the alert to only search this site and email you the relevant links daily, weekly, etc.
Post Reply