man Ace::Browser::SearchSubs (3): Subroutines for AceBrowser search scripts

SYNOPSIS

use Ace;
use Ace::Browser::AceSubs;
use Ace::Browser::SearchSubs;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $form = p(start_form,
textfield(-name=>'query'),
end_form);
AceSearchTable('Search for stuff',$form);
...
my $query = param('query');
my $offset = AceSearchOffset;
my ($objects,$count) = do_search($query,$offset);
AceResultsTable($objects,$count,$offset,'Here are results');

DESCRIPTION

Ace::Browser::SearchSubs exports a set of constants and subroutines that are useful for creating AceBrowser search scripts.

CONSTANTS

This package exports the following constants:

  MAXOBJECTS     The maximum number of objects that can be displayed
                 per page.
  SEARCH_ICON    An icon to use for search links. This is deprecated.
                 Use Configuration->Search_icon instead.

FUNCTIONS

These functions are exported:

$offset = AceSearchOffset()

When the user is paging back and forth among a multi-page list of results, this function returns the index of the first item to display.

AceSearchTable([{hash}],$title,@contents)

Given a title and the HTML contents, this formats the search into a table and gives it the background and foreground colors used elsewhere for searches. The formatted search is then printed.

The HTML contents are usually a fill-out form. For convenience, you can provide the contents in multiple parts (lines or elements) and they will be concatenated together.

If the first argument is a hashref, then its contents will be passed to start_form() to override the form arguments.

AceResultsTable($objects,$count,$offset,$title)

This subroutine formats the results of a search into a pageable list and prints out the resulting HTML. The following arguments are required:

 $objects   An array reference containing the objects to place in the
            table.
 $count     The total number of objects.
 $offset    The offset into the array, as returned by AceSearchOffset()
 $title     A title for the table.

The array reference should contain no more than MAXOBJECTS objects. The AceDB query should be arranged in such a way that this is the case. A typical idiom is the following:

  my $offset = AceSearchOffset();
  my $query  = param('query');
  my $count;
  my @objs = $db->fetch(-query=> $query,
                        -count  => MAXOBJECTS,
                        -offset => $offset,
                        -total => \$count
                       );
  AceResultsTable(\@objs,$count,$offset,'Here are the results');

BUGS

Please report them.

AUTHOR

Lincoln Stein <[email protected]>.