Hello,
Can you tell me if there is a way to concatenate search terms to provide a more comprehensive set of results? For example if someone searches the term 'smash mouth' a search would be performed for smash+mouth+"smash mouth"?
Thank you once again for your excellent support!
Dan
Hi Dan,
It's straight forward to give this a go in queries that trigger use of the FULLTEXT index (all terms > 3 characters long). In search.php look for the following code around line 215:
$where = "MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."')";$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * , MIN( price ) AS minPrice, MAX( price ) AS maxPrice, COUNT( id ) AS numMerchants, MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."') AS relevance FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE ".$where.$priceWhere." GROUP BY name";
...and REPLACE with:
$against = "'".database_safe($parts[0])." \"".database_safe($parts[0])."\"' IN BOOLEAN MODE";$where = "MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST (".$against.")";
$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * , MIN( price ) AS minPrice, MAX( price ) AS maxPrice, COUNT( id ) AS numMerchants, MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST (".$against.") AS relevance FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE ".$where.$priceWhere." GROUP BY name";
That will create a second version of the query in "quotes" (phrase match in MySQL FULLTEXT searching) that is searched in boolean mode (logic OR by default) with the original terms...
Cheers,
David.
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