Takk !
I sure will put it in the FAQ.
Bjarne
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From: Shannon -jj Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: FreeTrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: SV: [FreeTrade] How to get search results to show more info
> > While at this, could you try to explain to me how the search system of FreeTrade
>works. I know I asked this before, and I know you did answar, but I do not understand
>. Maybe if take it slow and step by step? Please?
>
> Bjarne, how could I say no to a plea like that! Here it goes:
>
> When you search with the generic search form, what the user is searching
> for is stored in the $inputKeywords variable. If they search via the
> advanced search, what the user enters is stored in the fields
> $inputName, $inputDescription, and $inputKeywords.
>
> Having hit the search button, the user is transfered to the
> search_results screen. In the search results screen, the system starts
> off by pulling the names, descriptions, and keywords of every item in
> the system into an array. Note that the keywords field is a field where
> the administrator can associate key words with an item--i.e. he must do
> these associations manually. Then the $inputName, $inputDescription,
> and $inputKeywords variables are tokenized into a series of separate
> words, and funky characters are thrown away. Having broken up the input
> into something recognizable, each token in the search criteria is
> compared to each token that results from breaking every item's name,
> description, and key words field. If there are any matches between any
> of these tokens, the system reports the matching item.
>
> Aside from matching items, if SEARCH_INDEX is true, each of the
> tokenized search criteria is compared to words in the $ScreenIndex
> array. The $ScreenIndex array is an array of word=>number mappings.
> The array is created by parsing every page in the site, and tokenizing
> that page into words. The number associated with each word is the
> number of times that word is used in the site. Naturally, certain words
> like "an" and "the" are not stored in the $ScreenIndex array because
> doing so would be pointless. Having explained the $ScreenIndex array, I
> can continue to state again that the tokenized search criteria is
> compared to the words in the $ScreenIndex array to see if there are any
> pages that match the search criteria. If so, the system reports the
> matching pages.
>
> Whew! That was a lot of typing. I hope that it helped. Bjarne,
> perhaps you can put this into the FAQ ;)
>
> -jj
>
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