[pmwiki-users] How to search using a markup function.

John Feezell JohnFeezell at 3wplace.com
Wed Apr 13 21:22:52 CDT 2005


Thanks Pm, I'll check it out and raise any questions I may have after 
I've had a chance to review it.

/JF

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:03:46PM -0500, John Feezell wrote:
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>>Looking for suggestions and guidance on the following:
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>>Here's what I'd like to be able to achieve.
>>1.  A user sets a search string via a custom markup - now working.
>>2. The function that handles the markup grabs the search string (now 
>>working) and passes it to PmWiki to process the "search".
>>3. PmWiki return the list of the "found" pages via a variable to the 
>>markup function.
>>4. The markup function continues processing the markup using the 
>>variable returned by PmWiki.
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>>I've looked at the (:searchbox::) markup, etc but it was unclear to me 
>>know the "search" was processed.  I believe that the variable I'd like 
>>to access is the resulting $MatchList variable. 
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>Actually, you probably want to look at (:searchresults:) or (:pagelist:)
>instead, as they're the ones that perform the actual search.  (:searchbox:)
>just generates the form for someone to fill in.
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>>The central idea is to process and working with a "search" that is 
>>started and mananged by the markup function rather than the user.  The 
>>user simply specifies the "search string" via the markup.
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>At the moment this is handled slightly differently -- the FmtPageList()
>function grabs the list of pages according to various search criteria,
>then passes that list to an output formatting function specified
>by the markup (which can be a custom markup).  
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>I did think about doing it the way you describe, where a markup-specific 
>function calls something to get the set of matching pages and then 
>formats the output, but at the time I decided it was too inefficient 
>(and searches are already too slow anyway) and less flexible than the 
>one I chose.
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>However, FmtPageList and friends are next on my "hit list" for improvements,
>so there may be a better answer for you here before I'm through.
>Still, I'd suggest making use of FmtPageList (feel free to ask questions
>about it).
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>Pm
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