AbleDesign

[Dan]

ReSearch v3.0 has been released with the following changes:

- added full text Name searches to match 'last, first' and 'first last' in addition to partial string matches
- added name linking ... athlete names in search results become direct link to searches for all other results by them (can be turned off)
- restructured some internal aspects to allow for tie-in of optional admin program
- added a printer friendly display of an event's full results, acessible through the "List all Events" popup -- not as wide as the standard search results display
- added table indexing for much faster display of results from large databases (up to 15x faster in some cases)
- changed the config file $db array approach to reduce the processing overhead in sorting output arrays
- added several help file items related to printing results
- added more input error checking
- added number formatting to the count of events & results in the database
- added HTML documentation
- added a configuration option for setting various display formats for event dates, such as 2001-11-04 or Nov 4, 2001
- popup event list now uses field name constants from the config file for ease of customizing database structure
- fixed a bug that didn't pass Sort selections through to multiple search results pages
- added a debugging setting to the config file for ease of troubleshooting
- now works with register_globals turned off
- the Year dropdown list in the search form now sorts by descending date order
- removed deprecated mysql_db_query() from research_event_list.php
- modified browser detection code to keep text boxes the proper size in Firefox & changed it to a faster method

And here is the full version history, complete with all the changes reflected in v3.0:

http://abledesign.com/programs/ReSearch/vhistory_ReSearch.php

Cheers,
Dan