[pmwiki-devel] Pmwiki.com search working?

[Petko Yotov]

Interesting. I spent the last two hours trying to find the reason, without  
success.

All pagelist/search functions seem to return the correct results (it is a  
large list of 2400+ pages), correctly formatted with templates applied and  
HTML correctly formed. The resulting half a megabyte of HTML output is then  
correctly stored into the $KPV array to avoid further markup processing. But  
in the end, it is not correctly recovered from the $KPV array.

Other searches returning many pages behave the same way: "marku", "mark up",  
"when"...

OTOH, changing the pagelist template to a simpler one displays correctly,  
for example search for "markup fmt=#bygroup" which is about the same as the  
default format but doesn't open all pages to extract the {=$:Summary} page  
text variable. Or "markup fmt=#simplename"

First thing that came to mind was that this could be some memory-related  
problem but the wiki reports peak memory usage less than half of what can be  
allocated.

On my own wikis I cannot replicate such a problem: on the second largest  
wiki after pmwiki.org I manage, searching for "a" or "/" returns 2700+ pages  
without problems (and that wiki has lower memory limits than pmwiki.org).

So, this is currently unresolved, but there are workarounds:
1. use a simpler pagelist template, eg. "search terms fmt=#bygroup"
2. limit your search to the groups you want to search, eg.
   "search terms group=PmWiki,Cookbook"

Petko

Simon writes:
> I'm finding a search for the word
> markup
> returns no results 
> but other words do work?