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. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Addons.ZIP | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3681| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40171 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
