Possible to change the display for the Yahoo BOSS ?
patchak - May 9, 2009 - 16:56
| Project: | More Like This |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | febbraro |
| Status: | won't fix |
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Description
Hey there, this module is great! If I can manage to fix some issues like automatically tagging content for MLT then I could really use this on a large scale project!!
Anyways, I was wondering if it's possible to change the results for the BOSS search results? For example, I would like to remove the date and maybe provide a small sentence below the link to describe the link. Is this possible by using this module, or we would be better to actually integrate with the BOSS API directly?
Thanks a lot,
Patchak
#1
Hey Patchak,
All MLT results are completely theme-able. For Yahoo BOSS News/Web search, for example, these are the default theme functions (as of v 1.1):
/**
* Theme an individual morelikethis item.
*
* @param $item
* An More Like This object for the provided node.
*/
function theme_morelikethis_yboss_item($item) {
return theme("morelikethis_yboss_{$item->yboss_type}_item", $item);
}
/**
* Theme an individual morelikethis web item.
*
* @param $item
* An More Like This object for the provided node.
*/
function theme_morelikethis_yboss_web_item($item) {
return l("$item->title ($item->date)", $item->clickurl);
}
/**
* Theme an individual morelikethis news item.
*
* @param $item
* An More Like This object for the provided node.
*/
function theme_morelikethis_yboss_news_item($item) {
$output = l("$item->title", $item->clickurl);
$output .= ' - (' . l("$item->source", $item->sourceurl) . ')';
return $output;
}
Those are just for the individual items, so in order to change it you can implement [themename]_moreliekthis_yboss_item or [themename]_morelikethis_yboss_web_item and do whatever you like.
Further, if you want to theme the overall structure of the block you can implement [themename]_morelikethis_yboss_block.
Hope that helps.
#2
Wow this is great!!
Hummm kinda newbie question : how can I see all the variables available to me in this function? I need to do like "print_r($item)" in my theme override to get to see it? Is there a place where I could see a list??
thanks,
Patchak
#3
Yes you can use print_r or var_dump.
Another thing I like to do is install the devel module and use the
dpm($item);Good luck.
#4
Hummm here is the theme function I have now :
/**
* Theme an individual morelikethis web item.
*
* @param $item
* An More Like This object for the provided node.
*/
function theme_morelikethis_yboss_web_item($item) {
var_dump($item);
return l("$item->title ($item->date)", $item->clickurl);
print '<br />' . $item->teaser;
}
/**
* Theme an individual morelikethis news item.
*
* @param $item
* An More Like This object for the provided node.
*/
function theme_morelikethis_yboss_news_item($item) {
$output = l("$item->title", $item->clickurl);
$output .= ' - (' . l("$item->source", $item->sourceurl) . ')';
$output .= '<br />' . $item->teaser;
return $output;
}
I added some code to print the "$item->teaser; " element, but I can't see any change when I refresh my pages. i tried resaving the node, emptying the cache, but no luck at all!
Any advice?
thanks,
Patchak
#5
If those functions are defined in your theme's template.php file then you need to change [theme] to the actual name of your theme. Then you need to clear all caches (as the theme registry is cached).
Good luck