Comments on: New Search Functionality

By: Distant Parts » Blog Archive » Search the Carsurvey.org Airline reviews

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:01:35 +0000

[...] Following on from the Improved Carsurvey.org Search, I’ve now ported this functionality to the airline reviews site. [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:28:54 +0000

You’re right - it was late at night and I was thinking of highlighting the keywords in the destination page, ala Google Cache. You’re right about it being pretty easy to do in the search results page itself.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:08:36 +0000

What parameters would you need to pass?

You’re building the page of results and you have the search string.

Just a quick preg before writing the page.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:35:16 +0000

Thanks Gary,

Might have to consider using pspell. Hopefully there’s a way to install it on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 without recompiling PHP.

The issue with the highlighting of search words is that the destination pages are supposed to be static HTML (they’re actually PHP with a bit of mod_rewrite magic). Would have to point the results at a plain PHP page to allow the passing of the parameters needed for highlighting. Will have to give the issue some thought.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:01:55 +0000

Apologies above, it escaped the example bold tags


$search = 'test';

$search_result = 'my test str';

echo $search_result."\n";

$search_result = preg_replace('/('.$search.')/','\1',$search_result);

echo $search_result."\n";

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:00:15 +0000

For search spelling suggestions I recommend pspell.

And for highlighting searches, how about…

$search = ‘test’;
$search_result = ‘my test str’;
echo $search_result.”\n”;
$search_result = preg_replace(’/(’.$search.’)/’,’\1‘,$search_result);
echo $search_result.”\n”;