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Searching Movable Type with PHP

Mike Davidson asked for it:

"... why hasn't someone just written a simple PHP function to query MT's database and return a record set? Am I missing something here? Why would that be a hard/bad thing to do? If anyone is willing and able to do this, I, and plenty of other Movable Type users would be eternally thankful."

So here I am with a copy of Hacking Movable Type and some free cycles. Bwahahaa ...

Try it out (using the search box on this very site). It's a work in progress, natch. Comments, questions and suggestions most welcome.

UPDATE: Progress on the Movable Type Plugin continues at a steady pace. On Friday, 7 October 2005, members of Six Apart's ProNet community were invited to tire-kick the latest Pre-Alpha release. If you're seriously interested in kicking tires too, please let me know. Thanks!

Posted by Joe on 28 August 2005 at 15:58 |

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Looks like it directly queries the database directly, surprisingly no one's tackled this problem before! [Read More]

Tracked on 29 August 2005 at 12:46

Turns out there’s one other example I was not previously aware of! See Full Text Search at Michael G. Schneider’s Movable Type Weblog.

Posted by: Joe D'Andrea | 29 August 2005 at 21:15

Yeah, but Michael hasn’t yet released his code.

Please let me know when you have this stable and documented. I’ll chat it up on Learning Movable Type.

Posted by: Elise | 3 September 2005 at 12:32

This looks really nice … if you’re looking out for KeyValues, it would be great if you could get it to play nice with CustomFields (Arvind Satyanarayan’s new plugin which looks amazing).

If you decide to do a DropCash campaign, I’d contribute!

Posted by: Patrick Taylor | 5 September 2005 at 21:34

An update. Work has begun on a Movable Type plugin incorporating this demo (currently in pre-alpha)! I don’t want to promise the world or anything like that, but watch this space (or site) for more details as they develop.

Posted by: Joe D'Andrea | 14 September 2005 at 11:23