Google-Like Search

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Last Post: August 1, 2012   (RSS)

By northernpenguin - July 30, 2012

I decided to use a Google-like search engine on a customer's website (see attached file). It works great, except when it gets to detail pages. Its obvious why, as it searches the web site files and not the cmsb database tables.

My client really likes this google-like search. Is there any way I can include the detail pages (ie the database tables) in the search?

Ragi
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Re: [northernpenguin] Google-Like Search

By Jason - July 30, 2012

Hi Ragi,

Are you using a 3rd Party search script that you want to integrate into CMS Builder? Without knowing more about this script, it's hard to say how possible this is. Is there any documentation for this script? It may be better to contact the authors of the search script to find out about customization.

Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] Google-Like Search

By northernpenguin - July 30, 2012

Hi Jason: unfortunately, it looks like it will be complicated to adapt this search script to cmsb. The website I am looking to "search" has around 40 section editors, so I'm not sure what would be the easiest way to implement a search engine.

Any suggestions?

Ragi
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northernpenguin
Northern Penguin Technologies

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Re: [Jason] Google-Like Search

By northernpenguin - July 31, 2012 - edited: July 31, 2012

Jason: using the
multisearch.php
file, I would have to define every table in my website that I want searched as follows:
$searchTables['news'] = array(
'viewerUrl' => 'newsPage.php',
'titleField' => 'title',
'summaryField' => 'summary',
'searchFields' => array('title','summary','content'),
);

Is this correct?

Also, I want to add a reset button to clear the search area. I tried <input type="reset" name="mybutton" value="Clear">, but it does nothing. Any ideas?
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northernpenguin
Northern Penguin Technologies

"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
........Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [northernpenguin] Google-Like Search

By Jason - August 1, 2012

Hi,

Yes, you'll need to define a $searchTables array for each CMS Builder section you want to search.

For your reset button, the code looks right. Make sure the code is inside the <form></form> tags.

Hope this helps
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