[megasad]

I started using a free search engine on my website back in May.

Does anyone know how I can make the search results be sorted alphabetically, either by filename or page title? Either would be fine.

[clam2000]

let me prefix this by saying i didn't look to closely, and i haven't done much with perl.

the line's you're interested in are:

Code:
my @keys;
  if( defined($query->param('sort')) && $query->param('sort') eq 'title' ) {
    @keys = sort {uc($titles_db{$a}) cmp uc($titles_db{$b})} (keys %answer);
  } else {
    @keys = sort {$answer{$b} <=> $answer{$a}} (keys %answer);
  }

in the search.pl script

you probably can just say:

Code:
my @keys;
@keys = keys %answer;

to stop the sorting,

mind you, this is just a guess, i really don't know if that will work.

[megasad]

Originally Posted by clam2000

let me prefix this by saying i didn't look to closely, and i haven't done much with perl.

the line's you're interested in are:

Code:
my @keys;
  if( defined($query->param('sort')) && $query->param('sort') eq 'title' ) {
    @keys = sort {uc($titles_db{$a}) cmp uc($titles_db{$b})} (keys %answer);
  } else {
    @keys = sort {$answer{$b} <=> $answer{$a}} (keys %answer);
  }

in the search.pl script

you probably can just say:

Code:
my @keys;
@keys = keys %answer;

to stop the sorting,

mind you, this is just a guess, i really don't know if that will work.

I figured it was those lines, but unfortunately your suggestion did not work. It seems to sort the same as before.

I know nothing of Perl but I figure this script is being very clever as far as it is concerned, weighting all the results in various ways. I think one route to take would be to strip all that gumph out.

Or, maybe easier, would be to apply an alphabetical sort command to the results, just before they are sent to the page? I realise that this is ass-backwards, doing a whole bunch of work and then undoing it, but if it's easier to implement I don't really mind.

I found this page but as I say, I do not know Perl, nor programming of any kind, so I do not know how to make it go.

[megasad]

Just had me an idea; does anyone know of a javascript that I could put in the template search result page that would sort the results alphabetically?