[MOBY-dev] the Search function on biomoby.org

[Twigger Simon]

Hi Mark,

I think the content would need to be actually loaded into the  
wordpress database as that is where it stores the text rather than in  
flat files. From looking at a local install of the db we'd need to  
load the HTML into the *_posts table with appropriate meta data to  
keep the page hierarchy straight and we'd have to deal with  
redirecting/rewriting hyperlinks from their flat file form to a  
wordpress URL form. This seems a little messy so I'll keep looking on  
the wp site to see if anything easier crops up.

S.



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On Feb 11, 2006, at 12:04 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> If we put a symlink in the wordpress folder will it traverse?
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:00:51 -0800, Twigger Simon  
> <simont at hmgc.mcw.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Just to note that I havent done anything yet - so any improvements
>> you may have noted are not due to anything I did! =)
>>
>> I checked and we do have the plugin installed and activated to search
>> both posts and pages. The pages are going to be things inside
>> wordpress though and it stores them in the db I believe so Im not
>> sure that merely being in the filesystem somewhere is going to count.
>> I'll go on a hunt for something that might address this, I also saw
>> that wordpress 2 has come out, I'll see what new features that brings
>> too.
>>
>> I see what you mean about the style problem for the search results,
>> I'll have a stab at improving that.
>>
>> S.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
>> Medical College of Wisconsin
>> 8701 Watertown Plank Road,
>> Milwaukee, WI, USA
>> tel: 414-456-8802
>> fax: 414-456-6595
>> AIM/iChat: simontatmcw
>>
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Frank Gibbons wrote:
>>
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> That's a big improvement on what we had before. Can we tweak the
>>> style a
>>> little though? If I search for "constructing", I get a single
>>> result, which
>>> looks like plain text. It's not until I mouse over the heading
>>> "BioMoby
>>> Perl Service Providers Tutorial" that I realise it's a link. That's
>>> becuase
>>> it's just big bold black text. Is there some way to format the
>>> results, so
>>> that the heading comes out as something that's more obviously a  
>>> link?
>>> (Color being the usual indicator for a link, my vote would be  
>>> that it
>>> follow the style of the other links on the page.)
>>>
>>> Great work,
>>>
>>> -Frank
>>>
>>>
>>> At 01:43 PM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> I might have missed the first part of this but it should be  
>>>> possible
>>>> to add in functionality to search static pages too - I did this  
>>>> via a
>>>> plug-in for one of my own wordpress installations. Im not sure  
>>>> where
>>>> the CVS_CONTENT folder is in relation to the wordpress file  
>>>> hierarchy
>>>> but I'll log in and see if I installed the plugin on the MOBY site
>>>> and if not, I'll add it in and we'll see what happens...
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
>>>> Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
>>>> Medical College of Wisconsin
>>>> 8701 Watertown Plank Road,
>>>> Milwaukee, WI, USA
>>>> tel: 414-456-8802
>>>> fax: 414-456-6595
>>>> AIM/iChat: simontatmcw
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I take that back - it does work!  However, it only searches  
>>>>> through
>>>>> what
>>>>> has been "blogged", not through the full content of the site
>>>>> (i.e. it
>>>>> excludes what is in the CVS_CONTENT folder)
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know how easy it would be to modify this behaviour, as the
>>>>> search utility is part of Wordpress...
>>>>>
>>>>> M
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> --
>>>>> ...his last words were 'Hey guys!  Watch this!'
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mark Wilkinson
>>>>> Asst. Professor
>>>>> Dept. of Medical Genetics
>>>>> University of British Columbia
>>>>> PI in Bioinformatics
>>>>> iCAPTURE Centre
>>>>> St. Paul's Hospital
>>>>> Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
>>>>> Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
>>>>> tel: 604 682 2344 x62129
>>>>> fax: 604 806 9274
>>>>>
>>>>> "For most of this century we have viewed communications as a
>>>>> conduit,
>>>>>        a pipe between physical locations on the planet.
>>>>> What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and
>>>>> interesting
>>>>>       that communication has become more than a conduit,
>>>>>        it has become a destination in its own right..."
>>>>>
>>>>>                 Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future
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