According to Adam Lipson:
> Thank you for your response. I did see that and it was definitely
> clear that it could be done I'm just a newbie at this and the terse
> documentation listed there is difficult to use. I was hoping that
> someone had an example as to how a search like the one at the bottom
> of the http://www.htdig.org web page was done with the pull down menu
> obviously referencing different databases, or is that a poor assumption?
> Is this one database and the URL fed to the cgi tells it not to look
> in certain dirs?
Yes, the search form(s) on the htdig.org site use only one config file
and one database, and the pull-down list to which you refer sets the
"restrict" parameter to htsearch, so that only certain subsets of the
database are included.
However, it would be easy to set up a similar pull-down list to select
between different config files, each of which defines a different database
via different database_dir attribute settings. E.g.:
Search database: <select name="config">
<option value="docs">Documentation</option>
<option value="mailing">Mailing Lists</option>
<option value="devel">Developer information</option>
</select>
Then in your configuration directory, you'd need to set up the
config files (e.g. docs.conf, mailing.conf, devel.conf) that define
the databases. All of these could "include: common.conf" or something
like that and just override the value of database_dir in each config file.
Of course, you'd need to remove any prior definition of the "config"
parameter from your search form as well. The default search.html has
it defined as a hidden input parameter.
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Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)
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