[geeklog-devel] Search result...

Simon Lord slord at marelina.com
Thu Jul 15 12:58:06 EDT 2004


Geeklog now highlights the search term as well, no idea how long that's 
been in there though.  All I really need is the sql query to return the 
first few sentences of the result like these two sites do.

So marc, how do you do that?  ;)

> The main thing he needed to overcome with the search code was the 
> highlighting for search terms.  The Code I provided changed the case 
> of the highlighted phrases.  This was a result of a nested regext used 
> to prevent adding the highlight span inside of an href tag on the url. 
>  It would be interesting to see what Rob's consultant came up with.  
> The bug can be worked around by turning off the highlighting code in 
> the story.
>
> Marc
>
> On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:58 AM, dwight at trumbower.com wrote:
>
>> I know at one time macosxhints.com was paying someone to create a 
>> better
>> search. Don't know if this is the result. You might want to contact 
>> Rob,
>> though I believe he is on this list.
>>
>> Dwight
>>
>>> Does anyone have the code which displays the search results in 
>>> Geeklog
>>> as they do on macfixit.com?  I like the fact that it grabs a few 
>>> lines
>>> of the result in question etc.  macosxhints.com uses the same
>>> formatting so I'm assuming this is a hack/edit being passed around 
>>> from
>>> one site admin to another and not actually in CVS.  A link to the
>>> desirable search result *formatting* I'm looking for is below.
>>>
>>> http://www.macfixit.com/search.php?
>>> query=Transmit&mode=search&type=stories&keyType=all&platform=Mac+OSX
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Simon
>>>
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Sincerely,
Simon




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