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Apr 7, 2004, 3:21 AM

KevM

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Apr 7, 2004, 3:21 AM

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show less pages in results

Hi,

if a user searches for a term that has lots of results Links SQL displays at the top Pages 1 2 3 4 5...... [>>]

Can I restrict this to just going up to 8 as anything above this goes onto a new line which mucks up my formatting, ideally it would stop at 8 and not what looks to be a default 15

i.e Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [>>]

Cheers
KevM

Apr 7, 2004, 3:36 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 3:36 AM

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Re: [KevM] show less pages in results In reply to

I don't think there is an option to do this. You would need to edit the .pm file which handles this (think its in /admin/Links/Build.pm). If I remember though, its a pretty 'busy' routine, so its hard to find what you are looking for,unless you really know what you are doing Frown

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 7, 2004, 5:08 AM

KevM

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Apr 7, 2004, 5:08 AM

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your're right, it looks a bit hairy so I'll just code around it

rgds

Cheers
KevM

Apr 7, 2004, 8:12 AM

fuzzy logic

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Apr 7, 2004, 8:12 AM

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You don't want to make changes in Build.pm, because then that affects everything that might use the span routine. The relevant code for the search bar is in Links::User::Search, in sub query.

Code:
# Generate a toolbar if requested. 
    my $toolbar; 
    if (($link_count > $args->{mh}) or ($cat_count > $args->{mh})) { 
        my $url = $IN->url ( { query_string => 1 } ); 
        $url =~ s/([;&?]?)nh=(\d+)/($1 and $1 eq '?') ? '?' : ''/eg; 
        $toolbar = Links::Build::build ('search_toolbar', {  
                url => $url,  
                numlinks => $link_count > $cat_count ? $link_count : $cat_count,  
                nh => $args->{nh},  
                mh => $args->{mh}  
        }); 
    }    
    else { 
        $toolbar = ''; 
    }

basicly, you'd want $link_count to max out at $args->{mh} * 8... ie,

Code:
if ($link_count > $args->{mh} * 8) {  
  $link_count = $args->{mh} * 8; 
}

untested... but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Philip
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Apr 7, 2004, 11:38 AM

afinlr

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Apr 7, 2004, 11:38 AM

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Re: [KevM] show less pages in results In reply to

You could just use your own span global - then you wouldn't have to edit the core code. Here's an example that would need a bit of modification to work on the search pages:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=249350#249350

Apr 8, 2004, 12:32 AM

KevM

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Apr 8, 2004, 12:32 AM

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Thanks Fuzzy/Afinlr,

Thats given me 2 options to play around with, I'm a bit more inclined towards the Fuzzy solution as it looks a bit easier to implement (I'm easily out of my depth you see) but will let you know how I get on.

many thanks

Cheers
KevM