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1. Login, Search and Message List

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Oct 06, 2008
• 1137 views
• Last edited Oct 07, 2008

Ok... Here's the low down on the latest forum software.

1. Login should now work again
2. Beta testing a new search function
3. New search function seems to break Message List, thus Message List is a redirect to Thread List until the problem is resolved.

Please let me know how you fair. Oh, the search functionality was added in between the time the "October" bug was discovered and when we were ready to deploy a new forum. Jacque has kindly spend much time on the search functionality. Thank you!

Jeremy

3. Re: Login, Search and Message List

• Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 06, 2008
• 921 views
• Last edited Oct 07, 2008

I logged out and manually deleted all OpenEuphoria.com cookies. I then logged in without the "Forever" checked. After 5 seconds the form came back saying I was NOT logged in. I pressed F5 to refresh and now it says I am logged in. I only have one cookie...

euf_sessinfo = "sessid%3D3E5C1A3C5CAAB283732F4A1AEBCC6A2A%26user%3DDerekParnell%26login%5Fforever%3D0"

There is no expiry date.

Hope this is what you were expecting.

I know there was not much, if any, of a requirements list for this functionality, but here are some discussion points ...

1. Option (check-box?) to search in the message bodies.
2. Searches should be case-insensitive, unless an option (check-box) says otherwise.
3. Searches should be on word boundaries, unless an option (check-box) says otherwise. That is "sum" should match "The sum was found" but not "a hot summer".
4. Each individual word is searched for with an implied 'and' between them.
5. A quoted phrase is needed if embedded non-word characters must be scanned for. eg. "programming language" is one 'word'. The quotes of course are stripped away before searching.
6. Lists of words separated by a pipe '|' or comma ',' represent alternative searches. That is, the next list is searched for after the current list is completed.
7. Words separated by a plus '+' not only mean 'and' but also in the same order as the search text. Thus "apple + orange" would match items where "orange" occurs after "apple", but "apple orange" would match items that have both "apple" and "orange" in any order.
8. Another text box to supply 'exclusion' criteria. That is, once an item has been found that matches the search text, if it also matches the 'exclusion' text, it is then deselected.

Examples:
apple | berry | "summer fruit" ==> would find items that have either "apple", "berry" or "summer fruit" in them.
apple berry "summer fruit" ==> would find items that have all of "apple" and "berry" and "summer fruit" in them.
apple berry , "summer fruit" ==> would find items that have all of "apple" and "berry", or have "summer fruit" in them.
apple berry summer fruit ==> would find items that have all of "apple" and "berry" and "summer" and "fruit" in them.
win32lib, wxwidget, qt ==> would find items that have either of the words "win32lib", "wxwidget" or "qt" in them.
win32lib getobject ==> would find items that have both the words "win32lib" and "getobject" in them, in any order.
win32lib + getobject ==> would find items that have both the words "win32lib" and "getobject" in them, in that order.