[pmwiki-users] pagelist / searchresults with weighted search

[V.Krishn]

On Friday 29 Jul 2011 5:48:44 am a.sonderhoff at gassi-tv.de wrote:
> With several PmWiki powered pages I am experiencing limitations in the
> Search functionality to a point where searching is nearly useless. This
> happens when there are a lot of pages (100+) with a large amount of content
> (50+ words). What happens is, that when using certain search terms, the
> page which is most relevant is nearly never listed as the first hit. This
> is because the search results can only be ordered by ctime, title, group
> etc., but not relevance/search quality.
>
> I was looking into writing a cookbook recipe myself to implement a simple
> weighted search (e. g. Title 0-20 pts, Description 0-10 pts, other content
> 0-5 pts) which the results can be sorted by (I used to do weighted searches
> a lot with mysql). But that would have meant to write an indexing routine
> of sorts. Of course PmWiki already comes with a simple search index, which
> basically lists keywords for the pages in the wiki. But the .pageindex
> seems to have no information about the quantity of these keywords within a
> specific page.

Have a look at some of search engines here:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00333

From a brief look at php impementation of Lucene in Zend framework I guess 
that would be an easy approach.

>
> Any ideas how to implement a weighted search without having to do that from
> scratch, e. g. adding this to the pagelist? I have to admit, that my
> understanding of PmWiki's internal functions and programming style is
> rather limited at this point. I am not so much a developer, more of a
> designer actually.
>
> Thanks for any input. I think weighted search is the only major feature
> PmWiki is missing to be a fully grown up wiki/cms.
>
> —Josh

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Regards.
V.Krishn