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Bug #48519 Redundant results from searches in php.net
Submitted: 2009-06-10 12:59 UTC Modified: 2014-12-30 21:00 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: jody at univ dot haifa dot ac dot il Assigned: jacob (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux Redhat Version 5
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-06-10 12:59 UTC] jody at univ dot haifa dot ac dot il
Description:
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[I originally sent this message to 'php-webmaster@lists.php.net'
and received a reply from Hannes Magnusson, requesting that I submit it as a bug report here.]

[This item bears a resemblance to bug report #20966 from 2005, but is not identical, and I think the problem bears investigation.]

I'd like to bring to your attention a problem I've encountered frequently when searching the online documentation at php.net.

After typing in my search string, I find that that results include multiple redundant items, the only difference between them being that they originate in versions of the documentation for different languages.

E.g.,  php.net/manual/en/function.pg-result-status.php,  php.net/manual/hk/function.pg-result-status.php,
php.net/manual/hu/function.pg-result-status.php,  php.net/manual/tw/function.pg-result-status.php, etc.

This results in a needless expansion of the search results, and hinders the process of scanning the list for relevant items. 

Is there any way of limiting a search to the documentation in a particular language? 
That would greatly improve the accuracy and usefulness of the search utility.

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Yosef Branse
University of Haifa Library
Library Information Systems Dept
E-mail: jody@univ.haifa.ac.il
Tel.: 972-4-8240288



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 [2009-06-17 07:04 UTC] bjori@php.net
Patch committed..
Now all we can wait until Y! reindexes the site and hope the patch fixed it :)

 [2010-05-07 01:46 UTC] philip@php.net
It does not appear said patch fixed it.
 [2014-12-30 21:00 UTC] jacob@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: jacob
 [2014-12-30 21:00 UTC] jacob@php.net
This appears resolved as searching for a string such as "notstrpos" displays the function listing page (http://php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=nostrpos&scope=quickref) and should you select to search the entire site, "l" is an included parameter now (http://php.net/results.php?q=nostrpos&l=en&p=all).
 
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