Re: [DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search
Oh rats!.. I cant believe I didnt notice the post URL had changed.. I got off on an tangent trying to figure out how the page kicks off the processing... Mont Kim Gräsman wrote: Hi Tom, I've fixed the search from the copy you posted. There were a couple of problems: - parseArgsEx expects the value argument to be first, before all switch arguments, so crit /music Tom Waits would search the music category for an empty string, since there's nothing between crit and /music. - The URL was wrong -- they seem to have moved the post target from search.metacritic.com/ to www.metacritic.com/ I cleaned up the form to contain as little as possible, while I was at it. Will commit to CVS as soon as possible. Cheers, - Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Corcoran Sent: den 26 januari 2006 22:44 To: DQSD Subject: [DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search The search for the metacritic site has been broken for some time. I attach an updated search which is NOT working however. I cannot figure out why. If anyone has the time i would appreciate some other eyes having a look. Thanks, Tom. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search
Hi Kim, New that one needed some new eyes! I wonder why the wizard never picked up the new action, I redid it and all. Thanks a lot, I missed that search. Tom. Kim Gräsman wrote: Hi Tom, I've fixed the search from the copy you posted. There were a couple of problems: - parseArgsEx expects the value argument to be first, before all switch arguments, so crit /music Tom Waits would search the music category for an empty string, since there's nothing between crit and /music. - The URL was wrong -- they seem to have moved the post target from search.metacritic.com/ to www.metacritic.com/ I cleaned up the form to contain as little as possible, while I was at it. Will commit to CVS as soon as possible. Cheers, - Kim --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
RE: [DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search
Hi Tom, I've fixed the search from the copy you posted. There were a couple of problems: - parseArgsEx expects the value argument to be first, before all switch arguments, so crit /music Tom Waits would search the music category for an empty string, since there's nothing between crit and /music. - The URL was wrong -- they seem to have moved the post target from search.metacritic.com/ to www.metacritic.com/ I cleaned up the form to contain as little as possible, while I was at it. Will commit to CVS as soon as possible. Cheers, - Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Corcoran Sent: den 26 januari 2006 22:44 To: DQSD Subject: [DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search The search for the metacritic site has been broken for some time. I attach an updated search which is NOT working however. I cannot figure out why. If anyone has the time i would appreciate some other eyes having a look. Thanks, Tom. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
[DQSD-Users] need help with broken metacritic search
The search for the metacritic site has been broken for some time. I
attach an updated search which is NOT working however. I cannot figure
out why. If anyone has the time i would appreciate some other eyes
having a look.
Thanks, Tom.
search function=crit
namemetacritic/name
categoryEntertainment/category
contributorTom Corcoran/contributor
linkhttp://www.metacritic.com/search/index.shtml/link
email/email
descriptionMetacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/dvd, music and games.br/
div class=helpboxDescLabelsUsage:/div
table class=helpboxDescTable
trtdcrit [{/all | /film | /music | /games | | /book | /tv}] lt;ititle/igt; /td/tr
/table
div class=helpboxDescLabelsExamples:/div
table class=helpboxDescTable
trtdcrit /music bright orange bright yellow/td/tr
trtdcrit /film bringing down the house/td/tr
/table
/description
form name=critf
method=post
action=http://search.metacritic.com/search/process;
input type=hidden name=ts value= /
input type=hidden name=tfs value=all /
input type=hidden name=sb value=0 /
input type=hidden name=ty value=0 /
input type=hidden name=movie_videodvd value=true /
input type=hidden name=movie_intheaters value=true /
input type=hidden name=release_date_s value= /
input type=hidden name=release_date_e value= /
input type=hidden name=metascore_s value= /
input type=hidden name=metascore_e value= /
/form
script![CDATA[
function crit(q)
{
if( nullArgs(crit, q) )
return false;
else
{
var args = parseArgsEx(q, all,film,music,games,book,tv);
if( args.switches.length 0 )
for( var j=0; jargs.switches.length; j++ )
switch( args.switches[j].name )
{
case all: document.critf.ty.value = 0; break;
case film: document.critf.ty.value = 1; break;
case music: document.critf.ty.value = 2; break;
case games: document.critf.ty.value = 3; break;
case book: document.critf.ty.value = 4; break;
case tv: document.critf.ty.value = 6; break;
}
}
document.critf.ts.value = args.q;
submitForm(critf);
}
]]/script
/search
