[pmwiki-devel] PmWiki Search results

[Simon]

Thanks very much.


On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 20:50, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> You're the third person who has asked me about this since 2018.
>
> I *really* don't have the time and peace to clean up and document this
> now but I can release the current draft for download:
>
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/uploads/Cookbook/enhancesearch.php
>
> It is highly customized for the needs and structure of PmWiki.org. For
> other wikis you may need to edit the code itself.
>
> It is unsupported, until I've had the time to clean it up and to
> document it in a Cookbook page.
>
> I wrote this to prevent "HTTP 500" errors by optimizing and paginating
> the search results processing and HTML generation, which for common
> words return too many pages and break the server/PHP limits.
>
> The page names on top, matching or close to the search terms, are to
> help the person more easily notice pages that are probably more
> relevant, on top, in addition to the ones buried into the alphabetical
> list.
>
> At the bottom, for large numbers of pages, there are links to limit the
> search to specific wiki groups, with the numbers of matches per group.
>
> BTW the PmWiki search is favouring writers, per the PmWiki Philosophy
> #1. I'll need and hopefully I'll soon be writing a reader-favouring
> search function for semantic weighted results (page titles, section
> headings) so the existing one is not a priority for me.
>
> Don't hold your breath. ;-)
>
> Petko
>
> --
> If you upgrade :  http://www.pmwiki.org/Upgrades
>
>
> On 25/07/2021 03:54, Simon wrote:
> > PmWiki now appears to display as output from (:searchresults:) page and
> > group names that contain the search term.
> >
> > Yet it appears to be using a vanilla (:searchresults:).
> >
> > How do I get this for my wiki (e.g.
> > https://ttc.org.nz/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TTC/Search)
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Simon
>
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