assela Pathirana:Hacks Specific to This Site

These hacks are dangerous. They have been done as last resort to overcome problems that were otherwise unsolvable. Do not use these in any other situation. Recorded here only as a reference.

Search Not Working

When URL forwarding and very short urls used together my Mod_Rewrite scripts could not handle the search function. The following was done to overcome this problem. Edit the skin.php and change as follows

        function getSearchLink() {
                $searchPage =& Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Search' );
                #Comment the line below and add the new return line.
//                return $searchPage->getLocalURL();
                return "/index.php?Special:Search";

and change include/SpecialSearch.php as follows

                $title = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Search' );
                //hack $action = $title->escapeLocalURL();
                $action = htmlspecialchars("/index.php?Special:Search");

Note

The URL rewriting should not rewrite requests with index.php