[pmwiki-users] Format Search Results

The Editor editor at fast.st
Tue Mar 27 10:51:42 CDT 2007


On 3/27/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> > I suppose I should know this but can't find it in the doc's.
> >
> > How does one control the formatting of one's search results so you do
> > not see the
> >
> > "Results of search for : " and "1 pages found out of 2 pages searched."
>
> The "Results of search for"... and "1 pages found" strings are currently
> part of the (:searchresults:) directive.  To avoid them one needs to
> use (:pagelist:) instead to display the output.

But how do you get a user input string to search with pagelist?

> For 2.2.0 I've been seriously considering changing this so that
> the (:searchresults:) directive simply defaults to having fmt=#search,
> and then the strings become part of the #search pagelist template
> instead of being hardwired into the directive itself.
>
> I don't know how many site customizations this might break... but then,
> the whole purpose of having a "beta" series is to make improvements
> like these.  :-)

I think this would be a great idea.  You can have a default template
which works as the existing display where no fmt is specified.

Cheers,
Dan



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