Re: MV 3.08 one-click search discrepancy

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>Hello minivend users. Can anyone tell me why these seemingly identical
>searches perform differently?
>
>[page scan se=Ted/se=Bundy/os=no/sf=mass_murderers]Ted Bundy[/page]
>
>works as anticipated, but:
>
>[page scan
>        se=Ted
>        se=Bundy
>        os=no
>        sf=mass_murderers
>        ]Ted Bundy[/page]
>
>produces the browser error:
>
>couldn't open /home/sbmedia/Minivend/catalog_3/tmp/se=Ted se=Bundy os=no
>sf=mass_murders :1: No such file or directory
>
>and writes the following error to the error.log:
>
>Runtime error llegal modulus zero at
>/usr/local/etc/mvend/lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm line 2560.
>
>Ideally I would like to use the form:
>
>[page scan
>	se="Ted Bundy"
>	sf=mass_murderers
>	]Ted Bundy[/page]
>
>But that does not work either.
>
>I am using MV 3.08, perl 5.004 and Solaris.
>
>Might I need to upgrade minivend?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

You most definitely want to upgrade, and you will also want to read the
following part from the documentation:

[tag scan/options]encased text[/tag]
	Builds a one-click search based on the enclosed text. Properly
	translates whitespace and non-word characters to be parseable by
	MiniVend. You can add the normal scan options, just the
	se=searchtext parameter will be affected. These two sequences
	evaluate the same:

	[tag scan/sf=category]Renaissance[/tag]
	[page scan sf=category/se=Renaissance]Renaissance[/page]

	Where it is useful is in adding long strings that would otherwise be
	difficult to encode, like

	[tag scan/sf=author/os=yes]John F. Kennedy[/tag]

	instead of:

	[page scan sf=author/se=John%20F.%20Kennedy]John F. Kennedy[/page]


This might be a more convenient way for this particular problem.

The double se solution is simply wrong (any version), and I don't think the
multi line sort options were in 3.08.

In 3.08 the following might work:
[page scan se=Ted%20Bundy/os=no/sf=mass_murderers]Ted Bundy[/page]

Frank

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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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