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Old 10-25-2003, 07:23 AM   #1
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Shorter Decription

Hi there.
I was trying to make shorter descriptions, but no succes.

I would like It to be like 150 characters, I tried to put that value in config, but it still creates larger descriptions.

In other words, I have desriptions like 4 lines of text, and I would like to have only 2 lines of text.

And another thing; I does something like that:

...part of the texton site ... ...bla bla bla... ...sdf gsdgsdg dsgdsg...

Does it show a context of the keyword?

Well, my wish is to be not longer ( whole description) than 150-160 characters.

Please Help
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Old 10-25-2003, 08:03 AM   #2
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Hi. Try changing define('DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM',4); to define('DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM',2); in the config file. This shold make it so that there are a max of two ... keyword in here ... ... keyword also in here ... displayed in the results.
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Old 10-25-2003, 08:20 AM   #3
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huh, Idid that just now, but :

those snippets are not more than 2 , but they are too long (180 characters),
if there are 2 snippets in one description, it makes 360 charecters.

and what I want is something about 160-180 caracters for whole descriptions, so if I set 2 snippets, they got to be not larger than 90-100 characters.

Somethings wrong with it: I will post 2 lines of my config:

define('SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH',190); //Max chars displayed in description

define('DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM',2); //Max snippets to display

and if still displays more than I wish.
I even tryied to crawl again after changing config values. No luck.

Huh help please.
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Old 10-25-2003, 08:45 AM   #4
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Hi. Oh, I see. Try setting DISPLAY_SUMMARY to true and DISPLAY_SNIPPETS to false and SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH to 160.
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Old 10-25-2003, 09:05 AM   #5
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oki i did that, but it doesn't show description at all, then ??

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Old 10-25-2003, 09:14 AM   #6
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Well thats becouse some pages doesn't have descriptions in meta, so best way is to reduce numer of words in snippets?

Do You know how to do that??

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Old 10-25-2003, 12:37 PM   #7
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Hi. The DISPLAY_SUMMARY starts at the beginning and goes to SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH whereas the DISPLAY_SNIPPETS is per line and displays DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM snippets.

To get SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH to work with DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM try the following.

In the libs directory, open search_function.php and find the following:
PHP Code:
if(eregi($reg_strings,$extract_content)) { 
and right afterwards put the following:
PHP Code:
$match_this_spot str_replace('<','&lt;',str_replace('>','&gt;',trim($match_this_spot)));
$match_this_spot eregi_replace($reg_strings,"\\\\1<\\\\2>\\\\3",$extract_content);
$first_bold_spot strpos($match_this_spot,"<");
$first_bold_spot max($first_bold_spot round((SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH 2),0), 0);
$extract_content substr($extract_content,$first_bold_spot,max(SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTHstrlen($query_string))); 
Now set DISPLAY_SUMMARY to false, DISPLAY_SNIPPETS to true, DISPLAY_SNIPPETS_NUM to X snippets, and SUMMARY_DISPLAY_LENGTH to Y characters so that X times Y equals 160.

Also, the length of the text displayed between the dots is dependent on the length of that line in the respective file in the text_content directory.

That means that if the length of the line equals Z characters, which is less than Y characters, then only Z characters will be displayed between the dots.

Remember to remove any "word" wrapping in the above code.
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Old 10-26-2003, 04:24 AM   #8
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welll I got blank page with errors:

Parse error: parse error in phpdig/libs/search_function.php on line 302


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: phpdigsearch() in /public_html/search.php on line 47

thx anyway
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Hi. The above code is currently working in the demo. Maybe a typo was introduced somewhere during the copy-paste?
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