Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
7 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: October 27, 2008 (RSS)
Perhaps you can help me with another little teaser...?!
I'm trying to add some more detail to my multi-search results page. Currently the search is designed to pull data from 4 different tables. For simplicity we'll call them:
Boats
Cars
Bikes
Trucks
The results page lists the returned data as you might expect:
Title
Summary, blah-blah, blah-blah, blah-blah.
more...
Now, in an attempt to provide the user with more info I would like to present the results like this:
Title [menuName]
Summary, blah-blah, blah-blah, blah-blah.
more...
By inserting the menuName after the Title I can show the visitor the parent section from which each result was pulled. Admittedly this may not be necessary in the cars, boats, bikes example - but it could be an important indicator when the sections are not so neatly defined.
How do I work the menuName into the code?
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Perchpole
Re: [Perchpole] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
By Dave - October 27, 2008
There's no easy way to do that with multisearch. It's limited to just the title and summary fields.
Options would be to:
1) Add some functionality to multiSearch() to support more fields - this would require some custom programming.
2) Considering storing all your data in a single table for a pulldown for (Boats, Cars, Bike, etc).
3) If the menuname is fixed you could add code to display it like so:
<?php if ($record['title'] == 'Boats'): ?>
Boats Menu Name
<?php endif; ?>
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
Hmmm, that's a shame. I've already used the "single table" method on one of my other sites. I agree it is far easier to display additional information using that method. However, this particular instance concerns my very first CMSB site which has a huge product catalogue spread over many different tables. I'm certainly not going to re-enter all of the data into a new, single table! It's for precisely these reasons why I would like the search result to show more information to the user.
Here's a thought...
All of the html files relating to each of the different sections (tables) are located in seperate folders. That means that when the search returns a link to an item it includes the name of the parent folder. Can we not use this to set-up an if, elseif sequence, such as...
if [_link] contains [folder_name] then do this...
elseif [_link] contains [other_folder_name] then do this...
etc...or some such thing?
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Perch
Re: [Perchpole] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
By Dave - October 27, 2008
Sure, we could give that a try. Can you give me a list of some example folder names and the output you'd like? Then my sample code will be more relevant.
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Re: [Dave] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
Thanks for giving-it-a-go!
The 4 folders are:
accessory
classic
gunpak
restricted
(It's military model web site: http://www.mmsmodels.co.uk)
I'm happy to play with the output myself. I just can't get my head around the code that would scan the link for the folder name.
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Perch
Re: [Perchpole] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
By Dave - October 27, 2008
<?php if (strpos($record['_link'], 'accessory')): ?>
Matched accessory
<?php endif ?>
<?php if (strpos($record['_link'], 'classic')): ?>
Matched classic
<?php endif ?>
Let me know if that works for you.
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Re: [Dave] Multi-Search Results - Adding Detail
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Perch