[TYPO3-dev] extending indexed_search by search in date range

[Steffen Kamper]

"Beate Sommer" <beate.sommer at macdev.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1173295217.19671.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>> Beate Sommer schrieb:
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> I had a look at the indexed_search sources and thought it shouldn't be a 
>>> to difficult extending it by a search by date.
>>
>> Really? If you think the code is easy to read you're qualified to do job 
>> yourself :-) I've always trouble understanding the way which queries are 
>> generated and why.
>>
> Okay maybe I have to much selfconfidence ;-) I just thought to extend 
> class.tx_indecedsearch.php by a new method dateRangeWhere() in 
> execFinalQuery() like the mediaTypeWhere() method is doing. I would try to 
> check for the item_mtime. Of course still there needs to be done the SQL 
> for it and there needs to be done the interface to for the Dateinput.
> I would just do this as a patch inside the indexed_search. Would this be 
> okay? Or should it be done by a new extension?
>
> Bea

Hi Bea,

best way would be to patch the indexed_search, improve the patch and then 
make a feature-request in Bugtracker delivering your diff-file.

vg  Steffen