Attached is an AlienBBC 2.0 (SC 7.0) Addon which provides a search
facility for BBC Listen Again.
It is work in progress and the aim of this initial implementation is to
see whether it meets a need and what can be added/changed.

To install:
SC 7.0 must be at least rev 14611 for both Web and SB search user
input. Just web user input works from rev 14348.

1. Unzip the files into the AlienBBC "Addons" directory.
2. If necessary change ownership and permissions to the same as other
files in the Addon directory.
3. Either restart SC or use in the Server Setting/Advanced/AlienBBC  -
"Reset Menu"
4. A new AlienBBC menu "Search BBC A to Z Prototype" should appear 

Usage:
The current searches are on the first word of a search string and are
not case sensitive.
With static searches the search word is defined in OPML file.
With dynamic search the user can enter search word either on Web
interface or SB interface.

The  menu entries
- Example of a static word search for "book" in Radio 4 A-Z
- Example of a static word search for "parliament" in Radio 4 A-Z
- A dynamic search with a search box for user input to search Radio 4
A-Z
- "Other BBC A-Z Word search" - next level menu has dynamic search of
5Live, 6Music and BBC7

For caching reasons the demo is not implemented for some station (e.g.
Radio 2).

How to customise :
The facility is configured using the BBCAZAddon.opml OPML file.  For
static searches the OPML entry has a "lookfor" tag and for dynamic
searches (i.e. entries with a search box) use the tag 'type="search"' 

Possibilities:
This implementation uses user input to restrict the number of entries
displayed from the standard "Listen Again" listings.  THis can be used
for other AlieBC pages such as Podcast. The user input mechanism is
generic and can be used by any Plugin which uses the OPML menu handling
(e.g. Infobrowser, Podcast).

Limitations:
No search input on Jive yet.
A text editor (Wordpad on Windows) must be used to edit the OPML file
as the "lookfor" and "type=search" tags are not supported by SC's OPML
editor.


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