Related articles

[riacheslav]

Does the related articles feature work? It returns nothing for me. I read in the forum that it searches the entire post. True? That seems very random, especially since the search function can be pretty funky, and generally returns an awful lot of articles even with few search terms.
Why not just do the matching based on keywords, which has the added advantage of allowing the admins more control over what gets returned?

Richard

PS- Regarding an earlier post of mine, "reordering articles"-- I was able to implement this very well, including a rather slick drag-and-drop AJAX interface for admins to adjust article order...I'd post it, but it is in the admin!

[Thorsten]

Hi,

Why not just do the matching based on keywords, which has the added advantage of allowing the admins more control over what gets returned?

hm, good question... is the current implementation so bad?

PS- Regarding an earlier post of mine, "reordering articles"-- I was able to implement this very well, including a rather slick drag-and-drop AJAX interface for admins to adjust article order...I'd post it, but it is in the admin!

ah, very cool. If you like I would add your code to phpMyFAQ 2.5.

bye
Thorsten

[riacheslav]

I don't really know if the current implementation is bad: it isn't giving me any results! So that isn't good.

My client likes my idea though, doing the search based solely on keyword. It'll allow them to define what shows up in the related articles, and they like that.

I don't know if the code I added for article reordering is quite clean enough for public use-- too many alterations are specific to my implementation-- but the idea and a good chunk of the implementation would be useful, I think. I'll try to set up a demo of it for you to see.

Thanks. It is a great product, and I've been enjoying working with it.

Richard

[R0CKY]

So, the related entries links are automatic? The links in my FAQ are not related at all, I'd rather have a drop down where I can manually select which FAQs are related.

If this is an automated feature using some kind of logic, can I switch it off somewhere as the results give the FAQ user a poor experience.

Thanks.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

it's using the fulltext search on the keywords.

bye
Thorsten

[R0CKY]

Hi

That's a great idea, very innovative - but it can produce bad results. Please consider an Admin option to either swicth that function off, or manually specify related items.

Also, is it really checking Keywords, as I have not specified any keywords for my FAQs, but it is still linking them as related

Thank you.