Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I’m trying to get Search terms from within the Blog’s search engine to be highlighted. I’ve got the following code:

{if $smarty.request.s == ""}
    {$content}
{else}
    {assign var=hilite value="<span class='hilite'>"|cat:$smarty.request.s|cat:"</span>"}
    {$content|replace:$smarty.request.s:$hilite}
{/if}

This works fine, as long as the search term isn’t in a URL, or something like that. In that case, it breaks the URL.

To get around this, I need to only replace if it’s not inside an HTML tag. regex_replace to the rescue. This took me about 30 minutes to eventually figure out, a tipoff to wfinn at yakasha dot net, and the comment he made on the PHP documentation pages:

{if $smarty.request.s == ""}
    {$content}
{else}
    {assign var=hilite value="<span class='hilite'>"|cat:$smarty.request.s|cat:"</span>"}
    {assign var=regex value="/(?![^< ]*?>)"|cat:$smarty.request.s|cat:"/"}
    {$content|regex_replace:$regex:$hilite}
{/if}

Obviously, you’ll need to have some sort of CSS styling for the search term.

.hilite {color:red; border:1px dashed; padding:0 3px; 0 3px;}

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This is actually a bug I’ve come across in other contexts, but the tag {wp_title} has a bit of a bug. When a category is selected, it returns a reasonable value (the title of the category). Ditto for an individual post.

However, with a date archive, the value is not as expected. A daily archive is fine, although I don’t like the format:

Captain Obvious » 2005 » October » 16.10.05

It doesn’t seem to be possible to alter this, other than the separator:

{wp_title sep="•"}

But it gets worse. If a monthly or yearly archive is chosen, the date of the last post to be displayed will also be presented:

Captain Obvious » 2005 » 13.08.05

Note that this is the last post on the page, not the first post. IIRC, normal Wordpress would be the other way around.

Instead, what I use is:

<title>
    {bloginfo show="name"}
    {single_post_title prefix=" &raquo; "}
    {single_cat_title prefix=" &raquo; Category: "}
    {if $smarty.request.name == ""}
        {single_month_title prefix=" &raquo; "}
    {/if}
    {if $smarty.request.s != ""}
         &raquo; Search: {$smarty.request.s}
    {/if}
</title>

This has the bonus of also noting when it’s a Search.

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It’s possible to create a private post within Blogsome, but not a whole private blog.

However, if you turn off allowing registration, you can make your blog private.

In your Main Page template, find the line that has {$content} on it.

Just before the line, insert the following lines:

{capture name=loginout}{wp_loginout}{/capture}
{if $smarty.capture.loginout|strip_tags:'0' == "Logout"}

And then, after it, insert the following lines:

{else}
    <p>This Blog is Private. Please {wp_loginout} before continuing</p>
{/if}

This will then prevent non logged-in users from viewing your posts.

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There are still a couple of issues with the XMLRPC interface.

• ecto seems to work nearly fine. It publishes posts without escaping, and allows for the setting of categories. This is with MetaWeblog API as the account type.
• Performancing publishes wrong unless using MetaWeblog API, but even when doing this, categories are not set.
• Flock appears to be the same as Performancing, when set to Wordpress, or MetaWeblog API.
• Qumana is the same - it autodetects it’s a Wordpress blog.
• MarsEdit - works, but presents an error message.

Thanks to kreaper, who’s been a big help in the testing. Anyone with any other results can leave a comment.

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This is a test post using Performancing for Firefox editor.

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