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| r2 | <?php | ||
| include('frontend.inc.php'); | |||
| pagehead('search-help', 'search help'); | |||
| ?> | |||
| <div class="content"><h2>About Searching</h2><div> | |||
| As the guy who wrote the search, I'm the logical candidate to | |||
| explain the thing. I'm not quite sure what they other guys make of | |||
| it, except that questions about it are bounced to me with remarkable | |||
| alacrity.<br><br> | |||
| Without further delay, I'll cut right to the subject: taming the | |||
| vicious search ninjas. I mean, using the search engine. Same | |||
| difference.<br><br> | |||
| There are two main modes to the search. There's search, which | |||
| displays a list of results, and find, which just takes you directly | |||
| to a strip. Both are accessible from the <a href="index.php">index page</a>. | |||
| Hitting 'enter' or pushing the "go" | |||
| button will initiate a normal search. Entering any text in the | |||
| searchbox or checking any of the checkboxes will cause the find | |||
| buttons to appear. They take you to the previous or next comic | |||
| fitting the criteria you've provided. Or the search ninjas apologize | |||
| for not being able to find anything, either way.<br><br> | |||
| A brief note about the checkboxes - none checked is the same as | |||
| all checked. It makes no difference, except that the latter may take | |||
| slightly longer.<br><br> | |||
| The search does a lot of interesting little things. One of the | |||
| more useful ones is that if just put in a number and hit enter, | |||
| you'll be taken to that strip. Go on, try it. I'll be here when you | |||
| get back. One of the side-effects of this is that if you want to | |||
| search for a number you have to <A HREF="search.php?q=%2242%22">enclose | |||
| it in quotes</A>, but that's the price of convenience.<br><br> | |||
| The most important operator is the colon. It distinguishes between | |||
| someone speaking and what's being said. The next most important | |||
| operator is the asterisk: *. It's a wildcard, denoting that <I>something</I> | |||
| goes there. There's a big difference between <A HREF="search.php?q=Largo%3A">looking | |||
| for Largo</A> and looking for <A HREF="search.php?q=*%3ALargo">someone | |||
| talking about Largo</A>. Then there's looking for <A HREF="search.php?q=Erika%3Aidiot">Erika | |||
| talking about Largo</A>, in which the colon makes a <A HREF="search.php?q=Erika+idiot">very | |||
| big difference</A> in the results you get.<br><br> | |||
| There are a few useful magic words - note the highly technical | |||
| term. One of them is "chapter". For illustration, here's | |||
| <A HREF="search.php?q=Kimiko+chapter%3A6">Kimiko | |||
| in Chapter 6</A>. There's also "min" and "max", | |||
| which do pretty much what you might expect. Just so we're clear, | |||
| here's <A HREF="search.php?q=Piro+max%3A500+min%3A400">what | |||
| Piro was up to between comics 400 and 500</A>. There are other magic | |||
| words. One of them is "meta", and it's documented on the | |||
| search page.<br><br> | |||
| There's one deserving of special mention: "#:random". It | |||
| takes you to a random strip within the criteria you specify. So if | |||
| you're Alpicola, you can go to a<A HREF="search.php?q=Megumi+%23%3Arandom"> | |||
| random Megumi strip</A> with ease.<br><br> | |||
| There may or may not be others. Explore as you will. Just watch | |||
| out for the ninjas.<br><br> | |||
| --Kalium | |||
| </div></div> | |||
| <?php pagefoot(); ?> | |||
| </body> | |||
| </html> |
