I was looking for a hack to the XOOPS search that could search to an external copy of PHPBB2 in conjuction with the basic XOOPS search, anyone can help me with this?

Don't have time to help right now, but this is an interesting suggestion:

Perhaps a module that allows the linking of external content by calling external searches. Could have a external module or script wrapped in an object with a couple methods: search, display_links, display_blocks

then the admin would be able to "point" the module to the external script to call to do the work...

a generalized mod could be very useful to those of us who don't only use Xoops.

Thanks for the idea. Sorry I wasn't more help.

no problem, I hope someone picks this up. It would really be very usefull in my oppinion.

It could even be used to query google :)