Re: Search drill down prototype working (mostly)

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

I'll send a nice healthy response to this shortly.  Sorry for my sluggish
response to mail... I had a rough weekend.  

Jason



On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:25:11PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> After a few late nights + lunches I got the drill down working pretty
> nicely.  There are a few features missing, but right now you can get a
> feel for how it will work (and that it actually does).   Many thanks go to
> Jason who was kind enough to make modifications to the simple.php3 form
> for me.
> 
> I'm happy to say that I was able to utilize all the HTML and PHP3 include
> files natively in my modperl module with only minor modifications. With
> that said, please remember that any changes to categories.php3 needs to be
> applied to categories_modperl.php3 as well.  There are a few more
> modifications required for the advanced.php3 search page, but I'll deal
> with that later.
> 
> One thing that *doesn't* work is the [Up] control in the Categories.  Not
> sure how that is implimented.  Someone who can understand PHP please fill
> me in so I can properly call it in my mod_perl script? 
> 
> With that said there are a few things that need to be decided on or just
> plain done:
> 
> 1)  How does the output look?  (Jason remember you need to fix the
> floating "links" tab above the left table.)
> 
> 2)  Do we want to support drill down search categories.  Ie:
> 
> Someone does a search for 'named' under Networking.  They get hits in
> numerous sub-categories.  They decide to drill down further.  So when they
> drill down does that execute another search or does it go back to browse
> mode?
> 
> 3)  Do we want more or less of an excerpt to be displayed with each match?
> 
> 4)  Anyone know where we can get a nice little penguin icon to replace the
> stock star.gif?
> 
> 5)  You'll notice that search results pass an extra paramater to
> article.php3: words.  This is intended so that article.php3 can parse the
> entry for those words and highlight them for the user.  This is
> functionality that has yet to be added to article.php3.
> 
> 6)  I need to figure out to get rid of duplicates off of the root
> category.  Too see what I mean, do a serach on 'named' from the root cat.
> You'll get two hits for article 1.  This only happens in the root cat.
> 
> 7)  Need to add link to advanced.php3
> 
> 8)  Need to get advanced.php3 working.
> 
> 9)  Need simple.php3 to pass the cateogory to Search.pm (the modperl
> module that does the searching).  This is necessary for drill down
> searches to work.  Jason is working on this.  Until this is working,
> you'll have to manually add the c= param to the URL.
> 
> Please give me some feedback.