Question about forum search links

[Van-Helsing]

Hello,
Is there a forum search link to search most viewed topics/posts?

[SLGray]

Do you mean on the support forum?

If no, there are widgets that have links for most viewed topics.

[Van-Helsing]

Hello @SLGray,
No, I mean in all forumotion forums, I am asking if there is something similar for web browser's url address bar.

Example: forum_url/search?show_results=topics&search_id=mostviewed

[SLGray]

Check your forum's statistics page for most viewed topics.

Example:  support forum - https://help.forumotion.com/statistics#4

[Van-Helsing]

I tried this but is displaying the whole forum statistics and just going directly to the most viewed topics. It isn't performing any kind of search especially for the most viewed topics. Do you know if there is search option/link like my example up which can do a search for most viewed topics? It is similar like the most viewed topics widget but I dont know how the widget retrieves these data.

[Van-Helsing]

Is there a solution about this question?

[Van-Helsing]

Bump

[Van-Helsing]

Bump

[Ape]

Hello no there is not one that we have on the FM forums... WELL NOT YET
as for tagging Ange Tuteur well that may not work anymore as he has left the staff and will not be in half as much as he has been you could go ask him in he's forum for help but i think he is having time out right now thou,

[Van-Helsing]

Hello Ape,
Logical it must there is away because the widget most viewed topics uses an algorithm to retrieve them but I don't know how.

[Ange Tuteur]

Hello Ape,
Logical it must there is away because the widget most viewed topics uses an algorithm to retrieve them but I don't know how.

There isn't a page that we know of, however that widget most likely retrieves the data from the server. The specified data is usually represented as a variable in the template.

[Van-Helsing]

Hello Ange,
Do you you know which php variable is this?

[Ange Tuteur]

No, but the template should be in Display > Templates > Portal if it's a default widget. I don't remember what the alias was though

[Van-Helsing]

Hmm
I found some variables on template mod_most_viewed_topics:

in the default template

Code:

<div class="module main">
   <div class="main-head"><div class="h3">{L_MOST_VIEWED_TOPICS}</div></div>
   <div class="main-content">
      <table summary="{L_MOST_VIEWED_TOPICS}" width="100%">
         <!-- BEGIN TOPIC -->
         <tr>
            <td class="{TOPIC.ROW_CLASS}"><a href="{TOPIC.LINK}" title="{TOPIC.TITLE}">{TOPIC.NAME}</a></td>
         </tr>
         <!-- END TOPIC -->
      </table>
      <br class="clear" />
   </div>
</div>

but I dont know how to adapt them into code.

[Ange Tuteur]

Code: {L_MOST_VIEWED_TOPICS}

is a language alias, this is usually denoted with the "L" at the beginning of the variable.

Code: {TOPIC.ROW_CLASS}

is the row classname. e.g. row1, row2

Code: {TOPIC.LINK}

is the link to the topic, obviously.

Code: {TOPIC.NAME}

is the topic name.

I'm assuming these will only work in the specified template. Note that the TOPIC variables must be between these comments :

Code:

<!-- BEGIN TOPIC -->
<!-- END TOPIC -->

The first one is most likely a global variable.