Plugin: Yahoo! BOSS Search
Development and Programming
Hi Ed,
It seems like putting an IP address in the “sites” parameter will not work so I put in the client’s existing site, just to get some kind of results. Any advice about how to handle this before I’m able use their true domain name?
Perhaps Yahoo’s search engine uses only domain names and not IP addresses? Or Yahoo does not know anything about your IP?
One solution which could work is this - to create a sitemap and ping it to the main search engines. There are many scripts which enable sitemap creation; probably the best of them is Sitemap Generator.
Concerning your site results page I noticed that it lacks the style rule (see example):
<style>
.keyterms_off {
display: none;
}
</style>
Laisvunas,
I just ran into an issue I thought I’d tell you about.
When I added a Freeform form to a contact page, both the YBS search form and the contact form stopped working, throwing an “Invalid GET Data” error when I tried to submit them. After doing a little testing and removing the YBS form, the error went away.
It appears that the YBS form was stripping out the closing </form> tag which was in my template, causing the subsequent Freeform form to blow up.
Here’s what I ended up doing to fix things:
{exp:yboss:form ...}
<form ...>
</form>
{/exp:yboss:form}
</form>You’ll see I added an extra </form> at the end. Just moving the preceding tag outside the {exp:yboss:form} pair caused the YBS form to fail.
Let me know if you want to investigate this and need more info.
Hi,
It was a bug.
I fixed it, so grab the version 1.3.4 and tell me if something will go wrong.
I’ll give that a shot, thanks.
This question is really more about Yahoo than your plugin but I thought I’d ask anyway:
I recently launched that new site but the search results are all cached pages from the OLD site. Anything I can do to help remedy this situation? Obviously I’d like to more quickly index the new site AND remove the old site pages.
Thanks, Ed
Hi Ed,
Try to create a sitemap and ping it to the main search engines. There are many scripts which enable sitemap creation; probably the best of them is Sitemap Generator.
Hi,
I released the version 1.3.5 of Yahoo! BOSS Search plugin.
In it I added new config variable “normalize_unicode”. It allows you to specify if search terms should be converted into unicode’s normalization form C. Possible values - yes/no. Default value is “no”. To convert search terms into unicode’s normalization form C you should either use PHP version 5.3 or higher or have PHP extension PECL intl installed.
Hi Laisvunas,
I have just come across your plugin, it looks really awsome. I am wondering: can I use it to search a bunch of pdf files located somewhere in a folder? That would solve a long standing problem of mine.
-Franco
Hi Franco,
I am wondering: can I use it to search a bunch of pdf files located somewhere in a folder?
Yes, you can if Yahoo has info about your pdfs.
The best solution is to provide sitemap to Yahoo. Probably the best sitemat generation script is Sitemap Generator.
Terrific, thank you for getting back to me Laisvunas.
P.S.: You have an interesting name - are you from one of the three baltic countries?
P.S.: You have an interesting name - are you from one of the three baltic countries?
Yes, I’m from Lithuania.