This is an old project, now obsolete. Links have been redacted. I know it’s only been a month, so it’s obviously far too soon for me to be publishing any kind of a script update. However, these were things which just needed to be done. First, I’ve greatly improved the internationalism of the script: it now operates searches on UTF-8 encoded data, so it should be great for working with any language which requires characters in that character set. Testing […]
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MySQL/PHP Boolean Search Updated
This is an old project, now obsolete. Links have been redacted. Following the publication of a brief article on Search results design by Adaptive Path, I decided that revising my database search script was a valuable goal. Specifically, meeting the checklist in that result was probably not a bad idea! It’s not that the previous version was terrible, but I knew perfectly well that it could be much better. The additions to the script are pretty straightforward: Additions: Added: Made […]
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This is an old project, now obsolete. Links have been redacted. It didn’t quite take 2 years, at least. But very, very close. The last release of this script was May 25th, 2006 — so I made it just under the wire. But this is also a bit more than just a script update. In fact, this is a complete overhaul. I’m not certain that there’s actually a single line in the poll script which is the same as the […]
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I received an interesting comment from my contact form the other day. I don’t need to respond to it, as the sender left a clearly false email address as their response address, but I do feel that it poses an interesting question for me. This is the message in its entirety: Dude how come your example poll have this amazing format, cool graphics, and when I download and installed yours, looks like SHIT? I mean, thanks for doing this and […]
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Just a quick announcement that I’ve updated my search script for Boolean matching in MySQL. The latest version is available for download on the PHP (Hypertext PreProcessing)/MYSQL Search Engine script page. The changes to this version include: Fixed: various minor bugs Fixed: multipage results not available with quoted strings Fixed: full-text query problem Fixed: some compatibility issues with different PHP/MySQL configurations. Added: sortable results Added: configurable field label names Added: sample results page Added: test mode for troubleshooting. It’s not […]
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