View Search Logs
7 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons
Last Post: August 29, 2009 (RSS)
By Djulia - August 26, 2009
It would be interesting to record in a table the keywords used by the visitors with the Custom Search Forms.
A plugin is possible ?
I tried to use the code suggested by Dave in the file addForm.php, but that does not seem to be possible with the function search.
Thanks, Djulia
Re: [Djulia] View Search Logs
By Dave - August 26, 2009
Yes it's possible. We may need to add a plugin hook for it but we can do that.
The first step would be to identify which urls to log. We could add a plugin hook to _createDefaultWhereWithFormInput() in the viewer_functions.php file that passed back an array of fieldnames being search and keywords. Would that work?
You might not want to log everything, though, for example num = 1.
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] View Search Logs
By Djulia - August 26, 2009
>> We could add a plugin hook to _createDefaultWhereWithFormInput() in the viewer_functions.php file that passed back an array of fieldnames being search and keywords.
Yes, that would be well !
The idea is to obtain a tool of decision and to direct the contents so necessary (...)
You think of being able to create the plugin ?
Thanks, Djulia
Re: [Djulia] View Search Logs
By Dave - August 27, 2009
I've been thinking about this more and I think it might be better to add on the page that does the searching.
How many search pages do you have (just one?)
And what information do you want recorded to the database? (fields searched, keyword used, matches returned?)
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Re: [Dave] View Search Logs
By Djulia - August 28, 2009 - edited: August 28, 2009
I have a search form for each section (sale house, sale appartment, rentals appartment...).
But, the form is identical for each section :
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<form name="" method="" action="">
<label>Keyword : </label>
<input type="text" name="zip_code,sector,title,content" />
<label>City : </label>
<input type="text" name="city_keyword,zip_code,sector_keyword" />
<label>Price :</label>
<select name="prix_min">
<option value="0">30.000</option>
<option value="100000">100.000</option>
<option value="200000">200.000</option>
...
</select>
</form>
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I would like to obtain the key word used for the fields Keyword and/or City.
It would be well, in the ideal, to obtain the price, but it is less important and that must complicate the plugin ?
The idea to obtain the matches returned is also very interesting.
It would be a good tool of statistics !
Thanks for the feedback, Djulia
Re: [Djulia] View Search Logs
By Dave - August 28, 2009
I think the simplest solution for this case might be to custom code something for your specific page rather than have a generic plugin.
What about something like this:
$keywordFieldnames = array();
$keywordFieldnames[] = 'zip_code,sector,title,content';
$keywordFieldnames[] = 'city_keyword,zip_code,sector_keyword';
$keywordFieldnames[] = 'prix_min';
foreach ($keywordFieldnames as $fieldname) {
$keyword = @$_REQUEST[$fieldname];
if (!$keyword) { continue; }
// add code here to insert $keyword into database
// ...
}Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] View Search Logs
By Djulia - August 29, 2009 - edited: August 29, 2009
Thanks ! That is for me the best approach.
That is very flexible and adapts very easily to the various needs.
Thank you very much !
Djulia