Customizing metasearch

admin50 · Post by **admin50** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 12:08 pm

I would like to customize the metasearch part of webinator so the input and results match my sites' layout and feel. Is this possible?

Please advise, thanks Paul

Post by **John** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 1:21 pm

Sure, you just need to edit the meta script.

admin50 · Post by **admin50** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 1:47 pm

I'm trying to customize the metasearch script and I'm getting the same error: 015 /webinator/narrowmeta1:149: Tag missing closing `>' bracket

I checked line# 149 and there is a closing bracket in place...

Help

Post by **John** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 1:52 pm

You may have unbalanced quotes somewhere, so it doesn't see the '>'.

admin50 · Post by **admin50** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 9:27 pm

Hello, I'm getting the same error message:
015 /webinator/narrowmeta1:162: No HTML/text allowed outside functions
When I make a slight correction(wrapping text onto one line) then the error message is the same except it's one line further down. (ie.line #163)
I've included the part of the script where the error is occurring.(line #162 is noted)

<table width=500 border=0 align=center cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td height=10></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 bgcolor=black>

**line#162 below**

Top Results from $searchhost
</td></tr><tr><td height=10></td></tr>
<timport max=10 ROW $actimports $html>
<tr><td align=right nowrap>$next . </td><td align=left><abstract $Title 75 dumb><$Title=$ret><upper $Title><$Title=$ret><fmt "<a href=%s> %s </a>" $Link $Title></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td align=left><abstract $Abstract 78 dumb><send $ret>...</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td align=left><abstract $ShowURL 75 dumb><send $ret> <fmt "<a href=%s target=_new>[open in new window]</a>" $Link>  <fmt "<a href=/texis/open/translate?searchprovider=translate&q=%U target=_new>[translate]</a>" $Link></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td align=left height=15></td></tr>
</timport><flush>
<if $loop eq 0><tr><td colspan=2>$searchhost found no answers for "$q" or timed out.</td></tr><tr><td height=15></td></tr></table></if>
<if $loop eq 10 or $loop gt 0><tr><td></td><td align=left><a href="$searchurllook$q" Alt="Search for $q on $searchhost">[click here]</a> to get additional results from $searchhost</td></tr><tr><td height=15></td></tr></table></if>
<flush></fetch>
</a>

Thanks, Paul

Post by **mark** » Mon Jun 25, 2001 10:58 am

I don't see any obvious problems in the excerpt. I would suggest starting with a freshly downloaded example script. Then carefully modify that a little at a time to get the desired output.

alistvideos · Post by **alistvideos** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 12:46 pm

Hello, I customized webinator metasearch and I got it to work. When I try to add a new customization ie.(more search engines to the same script) it won't work. The error "Tag missing closing `>' bracket" comes up in the part of the script that has not been modified. When I remove the new customized part of the script the script works(header and footer etc appear)??

Thanks in advance for your help..

Post by **John** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:45 pm

Most likely you have some unbalanced code in your new code, that finally finds a match further down the file. The most common causes are unmatched quotes, either single or double, mismatched <a> </a> tags, or unterminated comments.