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1 | Jennifer

September 11th, 2002 at 3:50 pm

Promo (by the way, you need to update you "nickname" so you get credit for your posts…)

you asked me if we posted a link to this, my bad – apparently we did (although, funny it didn't come up when I did a search for "search" ???!!!)

2 | Keith

September 12th, 2002 at 12:35 am

Just stopping by. Lovely site!

3 | robyn

September 12th, 2002 at 3:56 am

I didn't get it to work either — I wonder if it's either a mySQL or Blogomania/HM thing?

4 | Christine

September 12th, 2002 at 2:34 pm

More than likely a MySQL/mt-search issue rather than a server issue. Has anyone contacted the original author to see if he has a fix for the MySQL version?

5 | robyn

September 12th, 2002 at 3:27 pm

I'm not so sure Christine — at Promo's suggestion I just tried it on Todd's blog which still uses the DB method, and unless I just did it horribly wrong, it still gave the same Internal Server Error it gave me using mySQL.

6 | kristine

September 13th, 2002 at 3:35 pm

I wanted to play with this, but decided to wait until sometime later this month because MT2.5 will have the MT search integrated into it.

7 | David

September 16th, 2002 at 9:54 pm

I took the liberty of extending the hack a little.

I added display of the date, supression of logging blank searches, and an error exit if the log file can't be written to.

Here's my version:

# Log the search request

# Ideally the two variables that follow would be in the mt-search.cfg file and read from there
# But I don't know how to do that
# But the rest of the hack is written to allow for that future enhancement

my $uselog = 1; # 1 = YES; 0 = NO
my $logfile = "/full/path/to/log/file";

# Only write to log if configured to do so
if ($uselog eq '1') {
# Only write to log is search string is not null
if ($searchstr ne "") {
# Open the log file or display error and stop
open (LOG, "&gt&gt$logfile") or die "Can not open file $logfile: $!";
# Get the system date
my $date = `date`;
# Remove the carriage return from the date string
chop($date);
# Write the data to the file
print LOG "$date";
print LOG " – ";
print LOG "$searchstr\n";
# Close the log file
close (LOG);
}
}

# End of logging hack

I posted this on Graham's site too, but thought I'd put it here, since this is what led me to the hack originally.

8 | Promo

September 25th, 2002 at 11:55 am

Odd that it works for some folks and not for others. I wonder what the secret is?

9 | Anonymous

November 20th, 2002 at 2:12 pm

here