Glad to hear it! I hadn't seen SpecialSearchResultsAppend before. Unesful.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Paul Dugas <p...@dugasenterprises.com>wrote: > Thanks Nikolas. I found SpecialSearchResultsPrepend and > SpecialSearchResultsAppend > looking through the code though I didn't see them in the documentation. I > implemented the later to add a section below the standard search results > that lists results from my system. Seems to be working for now and > requires no patching of the core code. > > P > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Nikolas Everett <never...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > SpecialSearchResultsPrepend lets you add html directly to the search page > > but doesn't let you add your own results. The html actually gets > injected > > above the search for so it'd take some css trickery to move it. Example: > > "This wiki is using a new search engine. (Learn > > more<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch > > >)" > > on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Search > > > > Beyond that I think you have three options: > > 1. Extend SearchMySQL. > > 2. Add a hook yourself and know that you are running a patched version > of > > core. I'm happy to help get the patch upstream if you don't want to live > > with that burden forever. > > 3. Add that pages with importTextFile. > > > > Nik > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Paul Dugas <p...@dugasenterprises.com > > >wrote: > > > > > I have an extension using the ArticleFromTitle hook to generate pages > > > for components of a large system we operate. There are approximately > > > 6000 components at the moment with static inventory and config data in > > > a database and live status data in a number of other systems. We are > > > using MediaWiki as a historical maintenance knowledge-base for the > > > staff. With this extension, we can integrate all the data for each > > > device in one place. We can hit MyNS:DeviceName and get a page that > > > describes a device and that page can link to other pages in the main > > > namespace that techs create with vendor details, model info, manuals, > > > etc. We can even keep a talk page for each device. Very handy. > > > > > > Trouble now is I want to be able to find devices using the search > > > feature. SpecialSearchResults looked promising but that only gets > > > called when there is at least one match in "normal" pages. So, I > > > looked at SpecialSearchNoResults but that doesn't allow me to add to > > > the empty results. Doesn't anyone have a suggestion on how I could go > > > about this? I really want to avoid generating the text of pages > > > externally periodically and loading them into the wiki using the > > > importTextFile maintenance script. > > > > > > The only other thought I had was to extend the SearchMySQL class and > > > change $wgSearchType but I'm hoping to avoid that. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > --Paul > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > > *Paul Dugas* • *Dugas Enterprises, LLC* • *Computer Engineer* > > p...@dugasenterprises.com <p...@dugasenterprises.com> • +1.404.932.1355 > > 522 Black Canyon Park, Canton GA 30114 USA > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
