Re: Help related to excerpt - long.html (and short.html)

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, umesh rawar wrote:

> I would like to ask you a following question related
> to the htdig and excerpt used in long.html/short.html.
>
> In htdig long.html (and short.html), we display the
> excerpt up to 80 chars (bytes) and
> then we display the complete except (based on
> no_excerpt_show_top defined in htdig.conf)
>
> Now is it possible to display the value of column from
> mysql database (search the database and get the
> corresponding column value) in place of excerpt 80
> chars ?

I don't think that there is any simple way to do this. You would either
need to hack the source code that performs the template substitution or
move the search into some sort of custom wrapper script that handled all
of the presentation, including any necessary database calls. Although
somewhat dated, the following article contains some useful information
on wrapping searches.

   http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Search-This/


Jim


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