404 Search Function
Posted February 24th, 2003 @ 09:54pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Matt and I were rapping earlier today and he mentioned how much he liked php.net's search function (php.net/searchterm). This just after a discussion about how necessary "Search" is on our blogs.
So, putting 3 and 1 together, I came up with a built-in search function of my own. I no longer have a 404 page: you're instead either redirected to the page (if there's only one result) or you're shown the search results. So now, just type "http://nslog.com/blah" where "blah" is the search term. Go ahead, give it a try!
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Posted 24 Feb 2003 at 9:59pm #
hey man, that's sweet ass. i like it a lot. keep up the good work.
zach
Posted 24 Feb 2003 at 10:08pm #
That's a really good idea! Any chance you can release the code that you used for it?
Posted 24 Feb 2003 at 10:17pm #
I will when I'm sure it doesn't suck. 🙂 I took a very much "get it working, then make it fast" approach to this one. I currently iterate through every line of the search results page building an array of links, and then, if there's only one link, do I redirect to it. Otherwise I spit out the search results. Probably not optimal. We'll see. I'll put another entry called "404 Search Function Code" or something when I get it done.
Posted 24 Feb 2003 at 10:53pm #
Awesome, thanks! 🙂
Posted 25 Feb 2003 at 3:48am #
404 Search Function
NSLog();: "Matt and I were rapping earlier today and he mentioned how much he liked php.net's search function ( php.net/searchterm ). This just after a discussion about how necessary "Search" is on our blogs. So, putting 3 and 1 together, I came up wit...
Posted 26 Feb 2003 at 11:15pm #
A few days ago I promised that I'd post my 404 Search Function code. Here it is (below). Let me cover a few things first. Initially, I did a preg_match after having done a file(). The file() function returns an array. That's a bit costly, so I just wra...
Posted 27 Feb 2003 at 12:13am #
404 Search
Erik J. Barzeski has released his 404 search function code. I have in turn, integrated it into my site. The way the code works is that if you decide that you want to visit http://www.toomuchsexy.org/FOO, and that does not exist, you will either be redi...
Posted 15 Apr 2003 at 10:53pm #
404 Search Page...
Erik created a wonderful 404 search function. It requires only PHP. This explains what it does. I think this one
Posted 31 Jul 2003 at 10:27am #
Erik,
Would you be willing to release the code for the search function. I would be interested in trying it out.
Tameika
Posted 14 Nov 2005 at 9:06am #
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