[Pmwiki-users] Group/SearchWiki?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:15:21PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> I have another Feature-Request :)
> 
> So I request the following:
> 
> [[$Search]] should not create a form with an action of Main/SearchWiki,
> but to one of the following pages:
> 
> 1. same page if it contains [[$Searchresults]]
> 2. Group/SearchWiki if it exists
> 3. Main/SearchWiki

#1 is fairly difficult, because we don't always have the page text handy 
to find out if the page contains [[$SearchResults]].  Also it's not 
entirely clear what [[$Search]] in a sidebar would do in this case.

#2 and #3 are reasonable.  However, instead of trying to have [[$Search]] 
automatically figure out where to go, I've been planning to add a 
[[$Search:SearchPage]] markup, where SearchPage (or Group.SearchPage) 
indicates where the search should be sent.  But I can see how it'd be
nice to have [[$Search]] automatically do the right thing.

Note that #2 and #3 can be achieved via a variety of local customizations.
One of the easiest is simply something like (untested):

   $gs = FmtPageName('$Group/SearchWiki',$pagename);
   if (PageExists($gs)) XLSDV('en',array('Main/SearchWiki'=>$gs));

which simply uses the i18n translation table to substitute another page
for Main/SearchWiki if that page exists.

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