On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:39 +0100, Roan Kattouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > We had a pretty lengthy discussion about this before the summer, and the > consensus seemed to be that a fulltext-based approach looked most > viable. I actually wrote an extension that does that, and promised to > release it soon; that was quite a few months ago, and I never got around > to it. I'll release it properly when I have time, which will hopefully > be before Christmas :D > > The code needs some tweaking and refactoring, though. It's pretty > tightly integrated with the article text search (both functions in one > form) and has all kinds of weird features, because the guy who paid me > to write it wanted them. It also doesn't support three-letter word > searching (which core does these days, using a prefix hack), which is > pretty bad since categories with short titles (or stopword titles) won't > be found either. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > Hey Roan, does your code use the a new table for the category search (with fulltext index) and do you have the hooks for maintaining that table? Do you display the the results on a new search results page, or did you hack the existing one? Basically, I'm thinking that even if your stuff isn't ready for prime time, you may have already done a lot of the heavy lifting... can we get our hands on it? Thanks! Aerik -- http://eventfeed.org - An Initiative Promoting Syndication of Events http://www.wikidweb.com - the Wiki Directory of the Web http://tagthis.info - Hosted Tagging for your website! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
