This plugin is discontinued as according to his website (2012-06-29) the author of this plugin died in 2011. Feel free to adopt the plugin.

This syntax plugin is a plugin that inserts the results of a search as a bulleted list of links. The list is sorted alphanumerically (natsort), and uses the correct pagenames if $conf['useheading'] is set.

To produce normal [[page]] links to found pages:

{{search>the words}}

To produce [[page#section|pagename]] links to a specified section within found pages¹⁾

{{search>the words|index}}

I actually removed this “section” capability in the latest release, since it wasn't particularly useful (to me) and conflicted with searches which had a “|” in their phrases. Is this important for anyone?

For instance, {{search>searchresults}} would list the found pages as:

• plugins
• searchresults

while {{search>searchresults "== Syntax =="|Syntax}} would list this page as:

*searchresults

Removed, see above.

The plugin has no configuration settings.

Search and install the plugin using the Extension Manager. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

• Development: zip file 2007-02-27

• 2007-08-30 — Updated.
• 2007-08-06 — Updated.
• 2007-02-27 — Released.

<?php
/**
 * @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
 * @author     Todd Augsburger <todd@rollerorgans.com>
 */
 
if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../').'/');
if(!defined('DOKU_PLUGIN')) define('DOKU_PLUGIN',DOKU_INC.'lib/plugins/');
require_once(DOKU_PLUGIN.'syntax.php');
require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/fulltext.php');
 
class syntax_plugin_searchresults extends DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin {
 
    function getInfo(){
        return array(
            'author' => 'Todd Augsburger',
            'email'  => 'todd@rollerorgans.com',
            'date'   => '2007-08-06',
            'name'   => 'SearchResults Plugin',
            'desc'   => "returns search results as bulleted list:\n{{search>the words}} for normal [[page]] links\n{{search>the words|section}} for [[page#section|pagename]] links",
            'url'    => 'http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:searchresults',
        );
    }
 
    function getType() {
        return 'substition';
    }
 
    function getSort() {
        return 300;
    }
 
    function connectTo($mode) {
        $this->Lexer->addSpecialPattern("{{search>.*?}}", $mode, 'plugin_searchresults');
    }
 
    function handle($match, $state, $pos, &$handler) {
        if ($state == DOKU_LEXER_SPECIAL) {
             // strip / from start and / from end
            $match = substr($match,9,-2);
            return array($state, $match);
        }
        return array();
    }
 
    //natsort an array of pagenames
    function _addSorted(&$target,$names){
      global $conf;
      if ($conf['useheading']) {
        // sort by headings
        $title_array = array();
        foreach($names as $key=>$value) {
          if ($title = p_get_first_heading($value))
            $title_array[$key] = $title;
          else
            $title_array[$key] = $value;
        }
        natsort($title_array);
        foreach($title_array as $key=>$value)
          $target[] = $names[$key];
      } else {
        // sort by pagenames
        natsort($names);
        foreach($names as $value)
          $target[] = $value;
      }
    }
 
    function render($mode, &$renderer, $data) {
        if ($mode == 'xhtml') {
            list($state, $match) = $data;
            if ($state == DOKU_LEXER_SPECIAL) {
              $matches = array();
              if(preg_match('/(.*)\|(.*)/',$match,$matches))
                $search = ft_pageSearch($matches[1],$poswords);
              else
                $search = ft_pageSearch($match,$poswords);
              if(count($search)){
                $renderer->doc .= "<ul>\n";
                $key_array = array();
                $this->_addSorted($key_array,array_keys($search));
                foreach($key_array as $value) {
                  $renderer->doc .= '<li class="level1"><div class="li">';
                  if(empty($matches[2]))
                    $renderer->doc .= html_wikilink(':'.$value);
                  else
                    $renderer->doc .= html_wikilink(':'.$value.'#'.$matches[2],($title = p_get_first_heading($value)) ? $title : $value);
                  $renderer->doc .= "</div>\n";
                }
                $renderer->doc .= "</ul>\n";
              }
            }
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

• You may see the searchresults plugin in use (in a closed wiki) here where a folded list is presented.
  (Click on the “Composer”–the wiki syntax is {{search>"Lowell Mason" @cobs}})
• Or in use (in an open wiki) here

Thanks for making this available. I got it installed and it mostly does what I want, but…

It seems to be missing:

require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/fulltext.php');

Correct! I'll update the code.

Also, a few other things would be nice:

• the search results don't update without setting the cache time to something short for the entire wiki; it would be nice if that wasn't necessary

I use the ~~NOCACHE~~ tag in pages which need to be updated “realtime”

• it would be nice to be able to include/exclude namespaces

I use “@namespace” within my searches to limit them to a single namespace …
and do multiple searches for multiple criteria–that way it's not limited to just namespaces

• it would be nice to be able to display the namespace in the search results

So, using the above, I put the namespaces or descriptions on the page. Tables work well, too.

• it would be nice to be able to exclude specific pages

Agreed. My “work-around” is that I use another plugin which allows tags in the page, so my searches exclude certain tags

• the page containing the search should probably always be excluded

Well, not always–I want my “lists” to be identical everywhere. But it might make a good option

• it would be nice to be able to display context optionally

Good suggestion

Hi Todd. Superb plugin - it makes multiple relationships between pages really easy to do.

However, I WOULD like the section search facility. Why?

My site has lists of tunes, and I would like to link to tune authors.

But I do sometimes refer to the same people as playing those tunes. Obviously, this would cause doubles where I don't want them.

However, since I will put tune authors in a separate section, this would work.

Could you maybe just quote the necessary code here? I could then just paste it in and you would not need to do a new release.

Cheers

Ed Bradburn

The original code (which included the ability to go to a section) is what is still shown above
Note that it did not “search” for the section, it simply allowed the section text to be specified and passed to the resultant HTML. i.e. …

{{search>the words|section}}

returned a link like

[[page#section|pagename]]

Todd Augsburger 2008-10-17