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SearchExtensions

Question

How can we make searches more useful?

Answer

1. add jump-box support -- if you enter an existing page name into the search box, PmWiki goes straight there
2. add an action=search that
   • displays the search results in the current page location (instead of taking a searcher to the Main.SearchWiki page)
   • displays a PmWiki.SearchQuickReference page, if it exists
   • separates the searched for text into needle (search term(s)) and haystack (group)
3. (optional) add a Publish button to the search results, allowing a searcher to select pages of interest and display the content in a form suitable for printing
4. (optional) add a Publish button to Category? searches
5. (search2.phpΔ only) add an action=backlinks that lists references to the current page -- try adding this action to the page name in a template

Notes and Comments

Please note. The PublishPDF library includes the SearchExtensions recipe.

1. download search.phpΔ and install it in the Cookbook/ directory
2. place $SearchTagFmt in your template file at the point you want the search box to go (in the default PmWiki template, replace the text between <div id='wikihead'> and </div>
3. still in the template file, change Page last modified on to Page $ActDescription on (at this point, the text is English)
4. add include_once("$FarmD/Cookbook/search.php"); to the local/config.php file
5. create a PmWiki.SearchQuickReference file, like the one at http://intranet.affinity.co.nz/pmwiki2/index.php?n=PmWiki.SearchQuickReference
6. test that everything works correctly by loading PmWiki and doing a search and a jump-to-page
7. to take advantage of the publish features, download, install and test the latest version of PublishWikiTrail
8. add $PublishSearch = true; to the local/config.php file above the statement that includes search.php
9. if you want all 'search found' pages to be checked, add $PublishSearchChecked = true; to the local/config.php file above the statement that includes search.php
10. test the search publish capability -- the search results page should have gained a Publish button
11. if your Category.GroupFooter contains (:pagelist 'Category.{$Name}' list=normal:), category pages should also have gained a Publish button

History

• 27-Jul-05 possible fix for farm-based installation (thanks to K.A.Bouton)

See Also

PublishWikiTrail

Contributors

jr

Discussion

Problem

  pmwiki-2.0.beta34/5. doesn't like your good job ! :

"Warning: join() [function.join]: Bad arguments. in .../cookbook/search.php on line 89

I don't know php, I can't help you ! Thanks . Pierre79

  $GLOBALS['SearchIncl'] = array_merge((array)@$opt[''], (array)@$opt['+']);
  $GLOBALS['SearchExcl'] = array_merge((array)$opt['-']);
  $GLOBALS['SearchGroup'] = @$opt['group'];