On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, J Robinson wrote:

> Hello All:
> 
> I'm looking at swish.cgi (from the current dev version
> of swish-e) and I'm wondering what's the
> best way to have it supply a simple "search" box - I
> don't want any of the extra "limit search to", "sort
> by", or "select date range" features presented on the
> page.
> 
> Is there a 'best practices'-type way to have the
> output from swish.cgi have a single search textfield
> and "Search" button, followed by the Results for that
> search?

Kind of.  Here's a config file that disables those features.
They could also be commented out in the config of the swish.cgi script.

moseley@bumby:~/swish-e/example$ cat .swishcgi.conf 
return {
 metanames => undef,
 date_ranges => undef,
 sorts => undef,
};

But you will also need this change in the script, though:


Index: swish.cgi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/swishe/swish-e/example/swish.cgi,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 swish.cgi
--- swish.cgi   7 Mar 2003 23:23:23 -0000       1.38
+++ swish.cgi   14 Mar 2003 20:41:34 -0000
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@
 
     my $metaname = $q->param('metaname') || 'swishdefault';
 
-    return unless $self->is_valid_config_option( $self->config('metanames'), 'Bad MetaName provided', $metaname );
+    return unless $self->is_valid_config_option( $self->config('metanames') || 'swishdefault', 'Bad MetaName provided', $metaname );
 
     # save the metaname so we know what field to highlight
     # Note that this might be a fake metaname


-- 
Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org