Search function

[crnogorac081]

Hi,

I need a live search function (like search box with suggestions, but with replacing special characters like in search_convert.php), so I would like to analyze WB search function.. In news/search.php there is a news_search() function but I can not find where it is called/used ?

Could someone please point me in right direction ?

cheers

[marmot]

Hi,

you can find the search functions in /serach/serach.php  .
From line 322 is the functionality where module specific seach functions are called.

regards

[crnogorac081]

I also dont understand what is __before and __after used ??

[Ruud]

The search.php in a module directory is just serving the content for the main search script (in /search).
That way the search engine does not need to know about tables and what fields are important for all modules.

The __before and __after can be used by module developers, but I don't think it is ever used.

[Ruud]

Some more details can be found here:
http://nettest.thekk.de/doku.php/projects/new_search/description_de_5

[crnogorac081]

Hi Ruud,

I am trying to make searchbox with suggestions, which will match characters from search_convert.php (I have a list of chars like: $t["š"] = array("š", "s"); and it is working ok )

I found the code in news_search:

Code:

$search_sql1 = search_make_sql_part($search_url_array, $match, array('`title`','`content_short`','`content_long`'));

And put it into my search function:
$query = $database->query("SELECT post_id, group_id, link, title FROM `".TABLE_PREFIX."mod_news_posts` WHERE $search_sql1 ");

but it is not working. What is also confusing me is that I found this code inside wysiwyg_search function:

Code:

$search_sql = search_make_sql_part($func_search_url_array, $func_search_match, array('`content`'));

but  $search_sql  is not called in SQL query from wysiwyg_search function...??

could you please point me in right direction ?

cheers,
Ivan

[Ruud]

The "search_make_sql_par t" part in the WYSIWYG search.php is not used.
Must be a leftover of testing/developing/copying new functionality.

The only thing the search.php does is sending all "content" from the database to the search function.

Again... The search.php's in the module directories do not search. They just give the content that should be searched to the main searchenginge.