Re: phpweb documentation search

On 2010-12-11, at 3:24 AM, Hannes Magnússon wrote: > Do you still have the code for it somewhere? > I can't remember why we didn't actually implemented into current phpweb.. Almost lost it, but I grabbed it from a backup yesterday. Here it is: http://pastebin.com/QKnUZUW5 We didn't implement it because it was supposed to be part of the redesign and we started to go down the path of a JS only version. > Which also probably look into doing iterative upgrades of the website, > this "all or nothing" approach isn't working out.. Agreed! Unfortunately people just don't have much spare time :( > Hang on. Are you talking about the searchbox on prototype.php.net? > It has a minor problem with method searching, and should probably > prioritize hits that start with the same letters (i.e. 'strp' should > rank strpbrk, strpos, and strptime before graphme_, mb_, and > iconv_strpos). Nope. That version used a purely client-side function index (300kb .js file loaded into the browser) and did not have support for scoring due to limitations in the jQuery autocomplete plugin at the time. > Other then that, it seems to work great.. Should we merge it to trunk? It would need a bit of work. If we go the purely JS route, someone needs to look at the latest autocomplete to see if it can support arbitrary sorting/scoring. I'm still a bit leery of sending 300kb of JS to the client. Alternatively it could be revised to use XHR to call the script I posted above. The CSS would need to be revised to suit the existing design of PHP.net. Hope that helps! Stew