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Submitted by Syed on Thu, 2008-07-24 14:14 in

Hi David,

As my website has lot of products it is difficult for the customers to find the product they are looking for. Is there any way to implement an advanced search?

So that customers can filter to their specific product.

Thanks,
Syed

Submitted by support on Fri, 2008-07-25 16:52

Hello Syed,

My apologies; I missed your post in the moderation que.

There are various way of enhancing the search function; but the limitations of MySQL's full text indexing needs to be traded off against performance; meaning that most solutions are better suited to niche sites. There have been various threads regarding advanced search - try this search - but other things you might want to look at include stemming (searching for non-plural versions of plural words) - check this thread for more info on that...

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/617

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by Syed on Fri, 2008-07-25 23:34

Hi David,

Thank you for referring the links for advanced search. I feel the http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/776 is more appropriate for my PT site.

Could you please email me the scripts.

Thanks,
Syed

Submitted by support on Sat, 2008-07-26 09:41

Hello Syed,

Bear with me and I'll send you the min/max search code in a separate version of search.php with a separate search form which you can then use as the basis of your advanced search...

Cheers,
David.