How-To Add Descriptions to Your Search Results

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:35 pm

Greets:

Made a change out PHPNuke's Search Module that now shows the description (or hometext) of an article on the output page. Please feel free to try it with your favorite keywords:

Link: Search the Daria - Jane Conspiracy

How to do it in your own PHPNuke site:

- Open /module/Search/index.php

- Find the following code segment about a third way down:

Code:

printf("<tr><td><img src=\"images/folders.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"> ;;<font class=\"option\"><a href=\"%s\"><b>%s</b></a></font><br><font class=\"content\">"._CONTRIBUTEDBY." $informant<br>"._POSTEDBY." <a href=\"%s\">%s</a>",$furl,$title,$url,$aid,$informant);

- Edit it to show:

Code:

printf("<tr><td><img src=\"images/folders.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"> ;;<font class=\"option\"><a href=\"%s\"><b>%s</b></a></font><br><font class=\"content\">Description: $hometext<br>"._CONTRIBUTEDBY." $informant<br>"._POSTEDBY." <a href=\"%s\">%s</a>",$furl,$title,$url,$aid,$informant);

- Save and enjoy

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

- Very Nice. Thanks!

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:46 pm

Not a problem. Glad to help. I've had to make a few changes as my site is slightly different than the standard install.

thanks,
-drmike