Untitled Results

michaelbarton · Post by **michaelbarton** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:54 am

I am using webinator 4. Some of the results are for pages that have no <title> tag. Is there a way to specifiy a default page title to display in the search results?

Post by **mark** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:52 pm

You must have particularly old scripts. Later version 4 searches display --No Title-- for those. You can modify the search script where it outputs $Title to print something else if it's empty. Or download the last version 4 script from the website.

michaelbarton · Post by **michaelbarton** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:57 pm

Are there instructions (or a link) to how I can modify the scripts?

Post by **mark** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:12 pm

Use your favorite editor that can save in the original ascii format of the script file. Vortex (the scripting language) docs are online under tech support. Precise instructions would depend on the exact version of your script. But basically you'll find $Title being output somewhere. Put an <if> around it. Maybe something like
<if $Title eq "">
--No Title--
<else>
$Title
</if>

michaelbarton · Post by **michaelbarton** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:29 pm

cool, one last question...what is the name of the script that I need to edit? (and where would the location be (on a unix server))

Post by **mark** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:49 pm

"search"
The default location would be under the webinator subdirectory of your webserver's document root.

michaelbarton · Post by **michaelbarton** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:59 pm

EXCELLENT! It worked!
I found this...
<IF $Title eq "">
<$Title="Untitled">
</IF>

I just changed "Untitled" to "Web Article"

Thanks for your help!