New version of Daytona

[scripting]

Daytona is the search function for my blog, Scripting News.

This is a place to ask questions and report problems about the new version of Daytona.

The docs are here.

Hope you like! :-)

[andrewshell]

Wow, that is so fast :-)

When I click the hash mark on an item I'd expect it to take me to that item's permalink but right now it takes me to a missing page on https://daytona.scripting.com/

For example, on the "sources go direct" search:
https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22sources%20go%20direct%22

The first item hash links to https://daytona.scripting.com/2022/04/13/#a165106

[scripting]

Haha @andrewshell -- you are quick! 😄

There will be lots of stuff like that. This was a very quick release. I've had this done since September, and decided it shouldn't be sitting on the shelf so long.

[scripting]

@andrewshell -- the permalink should work now. :-)

[scripting]

I've encountered some problems with the database, otherwise everything else seems to work fine, though there are plenty of "nice to have" features -- none are essential.

1. If you search for WordLand it only finds one instance. There's obviously a problem there. ✔

2. And it doesn't find some of the things that are on the home page now. ✔

3. When I change something on the home page I don't see something in the server log. There should be a call saying "hey these items are in a page that updated, better check them." ✔

4. I wish where a date appears, I could click on it and go to the archive page for that day. ✔

5. I want to consider not trying to rank hits, rather show them in reverse chron order, this is a blog after all. ✔

6. Some days are listed in the hits, but there's nothing shown underneath. This is weird because when I go to the archive page there is an instance of the search term. (This due to markup on the matched text. When we scan to highlight, we don't find anything to highlight and thus assume it's not there. This is not the kind of thing I want to deal with when sweeping up bugs.)

7. Render emoji short codes, glossary references. (Not going to do this now.)

These are things I will look into when I swing back around, maybe in a couple of hours, maybe next week or month. ;-)

[scripting]

If you search for WordLand it only finds one instance. There's obviously a problem there.

Fixed. Posts between Sept and present were missing from the database.

[scripting]

Problem when searching for hyphenated terms like XML-RPC.

https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=xml-rpc

The search algorithm is willing to return hits for XML and RPC, as if they were separate search terms. But it's basically a word. Treating it like that would be like matching "pine" when I search for "pineapple". is there a way to account for this?

Changed the search algorithm from boolean mode to natural language mode, two modes supported by MySQL.