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mers
Joined: May 05, 2002
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From: Malta
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I've looked for this everywhere, cause it MUST have been brought up before ... why is it that when you click on a search result, it takes you to the beginning of the thread containing the matching post, and not the matching post itself? If there are 150 pages of posts, how are you expected to find the post of interest? On the other hand, if you go to the post itself, you can always scroll up and click the 1 2 ... 150 to get to the beginning of the thread ...
Just wondering, Em
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Vlammetje
Joined: Mar 01, 2003
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From: Den Haag
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Its somethng to do with the way the script is done I fear.
You will notice, if your search result happens to be the only post by that particular member in that thread it will take you to the actual post and not to the beginning of the thread.
Since this is often not the case.... and some threads get lengthy, it could be very hard to locate the answer.
Same happens when you search by posts per member.
In fact... even after you post and click 'view your post here' you will be reirected to the beginning of the thread and not your own last post.
Just a minor issue with the way the board is built. It's a handicap that grows with the size of the board itself, however I've no idea if it can be altered all that easily 
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Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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I've found that as well. The other thing I've thought of as well is if you want to go to a particular page in a large thread, say page 16 of 40, there's no way of getting to page 16 without first clicking through the first 15 pages.
Another little niggle, slightly off topic, my apologies! 
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GOwin
Joined: Jan 17, 2002
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@sammy_boy
well, there's a trick to getting into the pages you want to go without having to go thru the prior pages.
notice that a full page of a thread is 15 posts long. what you do is to compute for the number of pages required to get to the said page and place the total value in the start variable.
for example, this link gets you to the first page:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=59394&start=0
this link gets you to the fourth page:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=59394&start=45
and so, and so forth. 
@vlammetje
sometimes, it works, sometimes it doesn't especially with very long threads.
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mers
Joined: May 05, 2002
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From: Malta
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I'm not a PHP coder (though I am a developer) but it's not that hard to implement at all. As GOwin said, you can start=45 to get to page 3. But you can start=46 to get to the second post on that page directly. All that needs to be done is that the post # has to be returned by the search results, and the link created accordingly.
Now here's something that's equally annoying (not bitching, these are just suggestions). The search engine doesn't allow you to + a "string". So if I want to search for "speaker volume" AND K700i, I can't. If you search for
K700i "speaker volume"
you get one or the other. If you search for
+K700i "speaker volume"
you basically get all entries containing K700i, whether or not "speaker volume" is present. The only way for it to work is if you could
+K700i +"speaker volume"
That might be harder to fix though 
-Em
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Pradhika
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Another way of finding the page is to keep the time of that post in mind and the search labour is reduced.
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mrao
Joined: Nov 11, 2004
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 might as well remember the whole post and not search at all 
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Pradhika
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Does it apply to longer posts too?
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