[Apc-aa-coders] RE: Advenced search module for APC ACtion Application

[Marek T. <ma...@gn...>]

Hi,
yes I had some ideas about how to implement the module.
It would actually be quite excellent and incredibly usefull if you were able to develop this. I also think it's quite a good project
to work on from your perspective, as the aim (or spec) is quite clear, and you won't have to mess around too much with the user
interface and other code which may not be very clear.
2 months is quite a tight timing though. But I'm happy to give you a  guidiance, to the extent my own knowledge allows.

Do you know how the current AA search works ?
I wanted to use MnogoSearch as it has some PHP interface. My idea was to create following:
- Index page = a special page for mnogosearch where it could index AA items and store them knowing slice id and item id
- Extend the conds[] syntax so that it allows submitting fulltext queries
- Extend searchlib.php so that it can pass string to mnogosearch query mechanism using the right search domain (particular slice or
multiple slices), gather the result (set of item IDs) including the order (sorted by rank) AND carry on processing the normal AA
search (if any), but limited to the set of results (IDs) returned by mnogosearch

This is just a brief outline, so let me know what you think. You may have different ideas and I'm open to any suggestions.

Best
 Marek

>
> Hi
> I am Davide Rinaldi from Italy, currently estudying in Barcelona.
> I am doing my thesis , under the direction of Mr. Leandro Navarro,
> member of APC, on APC Action Applicacions and I need help!
> My thesis is divided in two parts:
> in the first part an introduction to CMS and to APC Action Applicacions
> compared to others CMS.
> In the second part I have to develop a new module for the APC Action
> Applicacions and I'd like to know what would be the best thing to do:
> I' ve read something about the need of a Advanced search module in the
> page
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=655339&group_id=6341&atid=356341
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=655339&group_id=6341&atid=356341>
> __  but I need to know something more about it.
> I already wrote to the mailing list but as i read in the above page that
> you where the developer of this module I also wrote to you.
> Any other suggestions of what could be useful to develop, not too
> complicated, is for my tesis and I have 2 months of time left, would be
> very useful.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>

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