The LinkSuggest extension does something like this for titles. Maybe it helps to look at it: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Link_Suggest
Best, matsch Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:22:35 +1200 schrieb Robert Carter <[email protected]>: > Thanks for your response. To describe more clearly: The ajax suggest > function of the wiki will do a dynamic search of page titles. But by > default it will only match article titles that begin with the search > term. Eg search for 'foo' will match 'foobar', but not 'barfoo'. I'm > trying to find a way to match titles that contain the search term > anywhere, so that 'foo' will match any title containing 'foo'. > > Even better would be to have the wiki return a list of titles from a > full text search based on the search phrase. API seems to only > return titles at this stage. > > Rob > > On 25/08/2009, at 10:58 PM, Platonides wrote: > > > Robert Carter wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I'd like to make a custom search box for our wiki that will do a > >> 'contains' search. I have tested using the mediawiki API and that > >> gives a 'begins with' search. The format is just what I need, but > >> how to do a 'contains' search? - using API or some other method. > >> > >> Rob > > > > Perform a normal search. Choose the articles you want to know it > > containers. Click 'What links here' in the toolbox. Press 'Hide > > links'. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Rock in China http://wiki.rockinchina.com/ http://www.rockinchina.com/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
