MeNeedz Search

[eluser]davidbehler[/eluser]
Hi, it's me again!
And this time I bring you: Search!

Don't know what I'm talking about? Let me try to explain:
Have you ever had to build a search function for a page? Change your query depending on the fields submitted by the user, check if there are results, get results, etc. Wouldn't it be nice if someone would do that for you? And that's where my library comes into play.

All you have to do is, create a table in your database, set up the config for your search in the config file and call one method, that's it! Every time you perform a search all the results, etc. are saved in the database. Now let's say your results are displayed over multiple pages, normally you would have to perform the search for each page and change the limit depending on the page and the number of entries per page. If you use my library you have to do nothing but pass the id of the search, the offset and the number of entries per page. My library gets the list of results of the search from the search table I use for "caching" the searches without doing the whole search query again.

Now you say: What happens if the result is not up to date anymore? Several topics that fit the criteria of the search where started after the search was performed. For this case I got a config variable that indicates the max age of a search. If the search is older than the max age, then the search is performed again and the row in the datase is updated...all without you doing anything but perform a search/scroll the search results.

Interested?

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Greets,
waldmeister