Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [...]
> > > How would you like to specify a pagename substring search box? > > > > One possibility would be to extend the (:searchbox:) directive with a > > (pseudo) variable for the search term, e.g. the "q" already used as > > HTTP GET variable. This way one could put some text around the user > > entry, like "name=*$q*". Maybe there are other uses for this. > > We've discussed having variables for query terms... but I don't > think that really solves the problem in a robust way. What if > $q has spaces in it, or represents multiple terms, or has other > options included in it? I see - my workaround is not robust. > I think my question is a bit broader than the answer given here... > I'm not really asking how to make it work within the directives > available -- I'm asking "how should it look"? In particular, > if (:searchbox:) is what we use to search page contents, perhaps > something like (:pagebox:) or (:titlesearch:) or something like > that is the way to go. > > Or perhaps we just specify a pagelist option that identifies > what is to be searched by the search terms. PmWiki's current > default would be "name,text,targets", but we could have an > option that limits the search to titles or names: > > (:searchbox fields=name:) which would be more flexible as far as I see. > > The "put me directly to the page if there is only one hit" behaviour > > might indeed require another option. What about making $MatchCount / > > {$$PageCount} accessible as page variable, then one could make a > > conditional redirect? > > {$$PageCount} is already a page variable. Thus, I think it would work > to have the following in a pagelist template (using the new syntax): o.k. - I didn't realize that it has to be in a template to be valid. > (:template last:) > (:if equal {$$PageCount} 1:)(:redirect {=$FullName}:) > > So, if there's only one page in the results, the browser is > immediately redirected to it. > > Using PmWiki's existing template syntax, this would be: > > (:if expr equal {>$Group} "" && equal {$$PageCount} 1 :) > (:redirect {=$FullName}:) the redirect doesn't seem to work - it's simply displayed as (:redirect PmWiki.SomePage:). For a "production" version I would also dislike a "(redirected from" message in the target page. Oliver -- Oliver Betz, Muenchen _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users