Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] search.pl contribute??

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Gianluca Sforna wrote:

> I don't know anything about the Matt original script, but I really like
> yours, so please continue this really good job.

Thanks for your support.

> For this reason I would like to give my (little) contribute to the project,
> even if I am not a Perl guru; right now, I am succesfully using the
> search.pl script on my site, but I have done some modifications based on my
> own experience/needs. In particular the $blocked variable now is searched as
> a regular expression since I would like to easily exclude all files in
> /stats and /stats_old relative to my $basedir. I also removed the $matches
> output on the results page, for which I cannot see the use, and added a new
> @subdir parameter that is controlled by the form "directory" variable. This
> way I can restrict the search only to a subdirectory: to have a look at the
> script in action try this URI: http://www.moldiscovery.com/search.html
>

This stuff looks like it will be useful but I would like to see the
patches so we can protect the naive user from any unsuspected changes, we
tend to guard behaviour that is dissimilar to the MSA script with an
$emulate_matts_code switch ...  I am sure that Dave will set you up as a
developer on the project if you want to contribute some code ...

/J\
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