Re: svn: /web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/ css/structure.css css/theme.css index.html js/common.js js/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js
js/search-index-en.js

I was looking at it yesterday, I didn't find a "elegant" way to extending it with that kind of functionality so I gave up :P -Hannes On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:37, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > If anyone has any ideas how to elegantly add scoring and sorting to the > jQuery autocomplete plugin, please let me know. > > With other JavaScript libraries, I've had success extending/overwriting > existing functions, rather than actually editing the original source. With > this plugin, I haven't had much luck clobbering existing functions with my > own. > > Thanks! > Stew > > > > On 19-Dec-09, at 11:57 AM, Stewart Lord wrote: > >> stewartlord                              Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:57:58 +0000 >> >> Revision: >> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=292336 >> >> Log: >> Implemented search auto-complete. >> >> The auto-completing search feature uses the popular >> jquery.autocomplete plugin: >> >> http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete >> >> The auto-complete data set is held client-side. This >> incurs one http request to load the search index when >> the page is loaded (via jQuery.getScript()), thereby >> avoiding additional requests as the user types in the >> search field. This makes the auto-complete feature >> very responsive. >> >> The search index file defines a 'searchIndex' array >> containing the name and page (filename) of each entry >> in the manual. The file is 382 KB uncompressed. Gzip >> compression (via the cli) reduces this to 53 KB. Proper >> configuration of server-side compression and expire >> headers should make this download relatively painless. >> >> The search index file resides under the js folder >> and is named: 'search-index-<lang>.js'. There is only >> one index file at this time ('en') and it was manually >> generated. >> >> The auto-complete feature has one major short-coming; >> the results are not sorted/ranked by relevance. This >> will required modification of the auto-complete >> plugin or a server-side suggest script to overcome. >> >> Changed paths: >>   U   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/css/structure.css >>   U   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/css/theme.css >>   U   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/index.html >>   U   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/js/common.js >>   A   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/js/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js >>   A   web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/js/search-index-en.js >> >> <diffs exceeded maximum size> >> -- >> PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >