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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Oct 12, 2022 01:51 AM UTC:

I've begun working on modifying the queryinc.php script to put less of a load on the server and to provide more helpful navigation links at the bottom. To reduce server load, I'm limiting all searching to a maximum of 500 items at a time. If there are more items, it provides a link for a search that continues the current search where it left off. It also provides options for either narrowing down or redirecting a search. These are visually in the form of buttons, though they are actually links. Using buttons helps create better visual separation between each option. These include a What's New link, a Primary Links link, links by starting letter, links by category, and links by type. If you click on one of these, it should discard previous options for searching by one of these. Otherwise, it is in danger of narrowing down the search to no items at all.

The current version does a complete search and counts up how many items there are for various types or categories of items, which it lists at the bottom with links. A complete search can sometimes overload the server, and I haven't found the counts and links it lists at the end too useful.

I'm thinking that maybe I should provide links for narrowing down the search if there are 500 or more items and links for redirecting the search if there are fewer than 500. However, I don't currently do it that way. Instead, if no type, category, or starting letter has been specified, I call it narrowing down, and if some has been specified, I call it redirecting.

There are some things I still need to get working, such as showing primary links. I think I commented out code for this when it was showing primary links ahead of regular links.

You can compare the old way with the new way by changing mainquery.php to mainquery-test.php in the navigation bar of your browser.


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