[geeklog-devel] Search result...

[Tony Bibbs]

Also, for performance reasons, I'd recommend any expanded searches (when 
implemented) to be turned off by default.

--Tony

Tony Bibbs wrote:

> There was the concept of 'expanded search results' in the work from 
> Marc.  I took that out because I wanted to get the highlighting 
> working first (last I knew I thought a few minor bugs related to 
> highlighting existed).  Adding expanded search would also require 
> notice to plugin developers as it would require them to add code if 
> they want to utilize that feature.
>
> --Tony
>
> Simon Lord wrote:
>
>> 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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