Can we make api.kde.org search better?

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Sun Nov 3 13:54:56 GMT 2013


On Saturday, November 02, 2013 08:35:13 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dissabte, 2 de novembre de 2013, a les 12:59:00, Allen Winter va escriure:
> > On Saturday, November 02, 2013 12:15:15 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > Hi, yesterday i was talking with someone about the desktop file class we
> > > have in KDE, he tried to find its api by going to
> > > 
> > >   api.kde.org
> > > 
> > > and typing
> > > 
> > >   desktop
> > > 
> > > in the Search bar.
> > > 
> > > If you do that
> > > 
> > >   http://api.kde.org/index.php?miss=1&class=desktop
> > > 
> > > all you get is
> > > 
> > >    No results found!
> > > 
> > > Do you guys know if we can make the search better?
> > 
> > A PHP person could fix the attached program so that we can search for
> > ".*foo.*"  (where foo is the user-specified search string) instead of simply
> > "foo".
> > 
> > that's one idea.
> > 
> > currently foo must exactly match what's in the map files.
> > 
> > I can provide an example map file if someone takes this on.
> 
> Please do so, we'll find someone to take care about it, i am sure we have some 
> php hacker that cares about KDE and wants to contribute :)
> 
The map files are large.  Volunteers to work on this should contact me directly
and I'll work together with them and help test.

-Allen






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