Counting example-hits like in the demo-toplist

[Uwe_B]

Hi,
i´ve seen, that in the demo-toplist http://www.aardvarktopsitesphp.com/topsites/ are placeholder-sites without the button (example.com), but the list counts pageviews and hits somehow. I also integrated some links without backlinks, how does it work, that this sites generate hits?

[OS-Mark]

its safe to say the stats are randomly generated for the purpose of the demo..

[Uwe_B]

Ok, then i have to order the sites by hits out.

But i have two further questions:

1. How can i configure the search, that the query must contain at least 3 characters?

2. How can i mod_rewrite the urls from /index.php?cat=name to /name and from /index.php?cat=name&method=&start=11 to /name/2/ or something like this? Has anyone written a rewrite-rule so far?

Best regards,
Uwe

[OS-Mark]

1. modify sources/search.php using strlen() function to do what you need. Hopefully you will consider sharing when your done.

2. mod rewrite is here: http://www.osempire.com/community/showthread.php?t=6248

[xl1200c]

@ Uwe_B
the code in version 5.2.1 fails to exclude searches with 2 or less characters
the problem is in the file /sources/search.php
specifically the variable $words is not redefined if count($filtered_words) = 0
to resolve change

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    if (count($filtered_words) > 0) {
      $words = $filtered_words;
    }


to

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    if (count($filtered_words) > 0) {
      $words = $filtered_words;
      $TMPL['query'] = implode(' ',$words);
    }
    else {
      $this->error("Search requires 3 or more characters. Please try again.");
    }


in the code above i added the line

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      $TMPL['query'] = implode(' ',$words);


so that the excluded search input would not be shown in the search results