When someone posts a new topic in a forum how about searching the <b>Subject:</b> for keywords and then displaying the FAQ's and tuturials with the same keyword.
Then the poster could check those articles to see if they answer their question before commiting the post (I know they <i>should / should</i> do a search...

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True words spoken. So many posts, so little searchers.

I usually get a lot of answers/links by searching here (DMXzone) first, then Google...and I think many people would be suprised at how <i>cool</i> Google is. Maybe we should teach people what types of keywords they can use in Google for better searching <i>(ie. just by adding the language in search queries - PHP/ASP/etc.)</i>.

But maybe search results links of your Subject post would be a wonderful feature!

<img src="www.uninteresting.info/archives/images/bart-google-thumb.gif" border=0>

<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> Bart says something solid for a change <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

regards
Dave

Sure the longer you're in this game the more code you can write - but also you learn how to search for answers on Google.
I'll give away one of my secrets here... When I'm answering a post I often Google for the answer and its usually there in the top 5 results; but <i>sshhh</i> don't tell anyone! <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

The search feature on DMXZone is perfect for the job, it returns results with a % mark on how good a match they are. So <b>WHEN</b> people start rating articles here the popular / successful ones should rise to the top of the likely answers by virtue of how good they are.

Would it be patronising to write a quick and dirty guide to searching and put it up as an FAQ or tutorial?

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Haha, I love it!

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<i>Ssshhhh, that's my secret too!</i> Hehe.

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I think an FAQ is needed, AND the sticky of "before you post" may want to be updated to include searching DMXzone first, yada-yada, and plug "Google Searching 101".

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help yourself to edit the sticky m8, no problem from me on that.

regards
Dave

DMX Zone Manager