[pmwiki-users] Search characyers

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Sat Dec 15 16:11:35 CST 2007


Saturday, December 15, 2007, 9:57:13 PM, Zahir Lalani wrote:

> I have setup a wiki and very impressed by pmwiki as a tool. However, I want
> to be able to change how the search works. The ":" is of course a special
> character in the search - unfortunately it is also a special delimiting
> character in the references we use in the text. It would be very tricky
> training users to not use this character. What I have found is that if
> enclose the search text in quotes then then the ":" is treated normally. So
> what I want is that when the search text is submitted, it is automatically
> wrapped in quotes. Is this possible?

Try and add to config.php:

$PageListArgPattern = '((?:\\$:?)?\\w+)=';

This has the : removed as a keyword-argument divider.
The original is in scripts/pagelist.php:

SDV($PageListArgPattern, '((?:\\$:?)?\\w+)[:=]');

but first defining the var in config.php will take precedence.



  ~Hans




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