Hi David,
When a user searches 'iPhone X', the search results also show the 'iPhone X cases'
Is it possible to use the minus sign to eliminate results containing certain words like 'iPhone X -case'.
Ok, users can use the filtering section, but I think this feature is more useful.
It's just like google search tricks.
a plus symbol (+) in front of words to force Pricetapestry to include,
maybe using quotes to search for an exact phrase,
...
Thanks.
Hello David,
Thanks for your quick reply.
I checked everything twice maybe more, but it did not work.
PHP Version 5.6.30
MySQL Version 5.5.5-10.1.32-MariaDBand /etc/my.cnf
#
# This group is read both both by the client and the server
# use it for options that affect everything
#
[client-server]
#
# include all files from the config directory
#
!includedir /etc/my.cnf.d
[mysqld]
ft_min_word_len = 1Hi,
My apologies, the final replacement following reduction of ft_min_word_len to 1 at line 246 should be FALSE rather than TRUE:
if (FALSE)(corrected above)
However there is a final change you might want to make as the search form is pre-populated with the normalised version of $_GET["q"] so your trick characters would be stripped - to pre-populate with the exact value being using in the FULLTEXT query, edit html/searchform.php and look for the following code at line 21:
<input required='required' type='text' name='q' value='<?php print ((isset($q) && !isset($parts[1]) && !isset($product["products"]))?$q:""); ?>'>...and REPLACE with:
<input required='required' type='text' name='q' value='<?php print ((isset($q) && !isset($parts[1]) && !isset($product["products"]))?$_GET["q"]:""); ?>'>Cheers,
David.
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Thank you very much David, it's working now.
You are awesome!
Hi David,
Hope you are well,
I need to have search results returning queries for the Dollars currency symbol .ie searching for $ only, would only return all products in Dollars such as $ such as $ is part of the product name.
At it stands searching for £ or € works great as searches returns the currencies respectively. But when searching for $ it triggers noresults.php
Is there a simple search operator or other way around it?
Thanks,
Antony
Hi Antoy,
By default all currency symbols would be removed from the query by the tapestry_normalise() function which is applied to $q at the top of search.php however you may have modified this previously to permit other characters but not yet "$" - the code is at line 6:
$q = (isset($_GET["q"])?tapestry_normalise($_GET["q"],":\.\/"):"");...so to permit $ and £ (€ should already be permitted as an extended UTF-8 character) REPLACE with:
$q = (isset($_GET["q"])?tapestry_normalise($_GET["q"],":\.\/£$"):"");Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Hello Kenan,
Most of the tricks you describe are supported by MySQL's FULLTEXT index in BOOLEAN MODE:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-boolean.html
To support this, edit search.php and look for the following code at line 257:
$words = explode(" ",$parts[0]);...and REPLACE with:
$parts[0] = $_GET["q"];$words = explode(" ",$parts[0]);
And then the following code beginning at (now) line 283:
$where = "MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."')";$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS id,COUNT(id) AS numMerchants,MIN(price) as minPrice, MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."') AS relevance FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE ".$where.$priceWhere." GROUP BY search_name";
...and REPLACE with:
$where = "MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."' IN BOOLEAN MODE)";$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS id,COUNT(id) AS numMerchants,MIN(price) as minPrice, MATCH ".$matchFields." AGAINST ('".database_safe($parts[0])."' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AS relevance FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."products` WHERE ".$where.$priceWhere." GROUP BY search_name";
MySQL's FULLTEXT index has a minimum word length setting which is 4 by default and this is considered by the script making a basic LIKE query if any keyword is less than 4 characters (as would be the case in your "iPhone X Cases" example).
If you have root access to your server (or would be able to ask your host to make the changes for you) this can be changed to 1 in the MySQL configuration file which is normally /etc/my.cnf or /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
The setting is ft_min_word_len which needs to be in the [mysqld] section of the file. First check if is already there and change to 1 or add the setting e.g.
[mysqld]...other stuff...
ft_min_word_len = 1
After making the changes don't forget to restart MySQL / Apache etc. and then run a full import to have the new FULLTEXT index built with the new minimum word length setting. Finally, edit search.php and look for the following code at line 246:
if (strlen($word) <= 3 || in_array(strtolower($word),$stopwords))...and REPLACE with:
if (FALSE)...to use FULLTEXT in BOOLEAN MODE for all normal queries.
Cheers,
David.
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