[pmwiki-users] Custom searchbox

[Pico]

Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:22:04PM +0000, Pico wrote:
> > [...]A question in PmWiki/Questions is looking for a 
> > use-friendly way to limit searches to the text of PageName, 
> > without requiring visitors to know about searchbox parameters
> > and wildcards.
> > 
> > Background:
> > 
> > For example, assume that you want to search for pages whose 
> > *name* contains the string "Foo" .
> > [...]
> 
> Why not just...?
> 
>     (:searchbox name=*Foo* :)

Because we don't want to hardcode the string "Foo" into the searchbox.  If we
were using the searchbox directive with the name= parameter, we would want that
parameter to use value of whatever-string-is-entered-into-the-searchbox (lets
call it {$Value} for the sake of this discussion), like this:

  (:searchbox name=*{$Value}* :)

Pico