sonic
Bluelight Crew
Searching for keywords/phrases from any site on BL using the Firefox SearchWithin plugin
I got some inspiration from felixdahousekat with his idea to make it easier to search user galleries. I wanted to make it so you could search for anything on BL or any other site just by highlighting a word, right clicking and performing a BL search with the plugin. Here's how I figured it out. It involves a little bit of tweaking, but even the novice user should be able to do this as long as they're good at following instructions.
I guess sometime tonight felixdahousekat will be posting his tutorial on how you can search for user's galleries by right clicking on their name. It makes life SO much easier and I give him mad props for figuring this out.
The first few steps of this tutorial were borrowed from felixdahousekat. I'd like to thank him for giving me this idea in the first place.
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1. Download & install the 'SearchWith' plugin for Firefox. This plugin is ESSENTIAL even without this little fudge I just invented, so try it anyway.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2194/ (71kb)
2. Right-click anywhere and you will see a new item in the context menu - 'Search With >' - which then lists all the types of search (services) you can run on any highlighted word or phrase. What we need to do is modify one of these services.
3. Select Search With/Manage Services, and click on the Engines tab.
4. Type in a name such as "Bluelight Search" and click "Add Engine"
5. Type in the above options
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Engine name: Bluelight search (or whatever you want)
Search Address: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/search.php?do=process&query=
Extra Options: &showposts=1 (this is to show the results as posts and not threads, leave it blank if you'd rather see threads)
Icon path: http://i.bluelight.ru/pi/5.gif (This is the default BL question mark icon, you can pick another icon of your choice of course)
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6. Click on the Services tab
7. Type in a name such as "BL Search" and click "add"
8. Select the search engine name you picked in step 4
9. Click close, then ok, and you're done!
To test it, highlight a word anywhere (on any site) right click, click search with, and pick Bluelight search
You can also tweak this by doing things such as searching for titles only under the "Extra Options" text box in the engine window.
I got the parameters for using VBulletin's search.php at: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107955
I might come up with some more tutorials if I get anymore bright ideas.
-sonic
I got some inspiration from felixdahousekat with his idea to make it easier to search user galleries. I wanted to make it so you could search for anything on BL or any other site just by highlighting a word, right clicking and performing a BL search with the plugin. Here's how I figured it out. It involves a little bit of tweaking, but even the novice user should be able to do this as long as they're good at following instructions.
I guess sometime tonight felixdahousekat will be posting his tutorial on how you can search for user's galleries by right clicking on their name. It makes life SO much easier and I give him mad props for figuring this out.
The first few steps of this tutorial were borrowed from felixdahousekat. I'd like to thank him for giving me this idea in the first place.
==============================================
1. Download & install the 'SearchWith' plugin for Firefox. This plugin is ESSENTIAL even without this little fudge I just invented, so try it anyway.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2194/ (71kb)
2. Right-click anywhere and you will see a new item in the context menu - 'Search With >' - which then lists all the types of search (services) you can run on any highlighted word or phrase. What we need to do is modify one of these services.
3. Select Search With/Manage Services, and click on the Engines tab.
4. Type in a name such as "Bluelight Search" and click "Add Engine"
5. Type in the above options
____________________________________________________________________________________
Engine name: Bluelight search (or whatever you want)
Search Address: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/search.php?do=process&query=
Extra Options: &showposts=1 (this is to show the results as posts and not threads, leave it blank if you'd rather see threads)
Icon path: http://i.bluelight.ru/pi/5.gif (This is the default BL question mark icon, you can pick another icon of your choice of course)
____________________________________________________________________________________
6. Click on the Services tab
7. Type in a name such as "BL Search" and click "add"
8. Select the search engine name you picked in step 4
9. Click close, then ok, and you're done!
To test it, highlight a word anywhere (on any site) right click, click search with, and pick Bluelight search
You can also tweak this by doing things such as searching for titles only under the "Extra Options" text box in the engine window.
I got the parameters for using VBulletin's search.php at: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107955
I might come up with some more tutorials if I get anymore bright ideas.
-sonic
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I would be pleased if you would just do another one for the gallery too (or incorporate it into this one?) - cos then all the screenshots would look the same, you know? 
thank you guys
