MultiSearch

Hi Tim,

Unfortunately this isn't possible without modification of core CMSB code, and any changes made to it we wouldn't be able to provide support for. If you have a look at line 1178 of the viewer_functions.php in the lib directory of your CMS Builder install, you should see the line decides what fields are selected. If you modify it from this:

$subquery         = "SELECT '$tablename' as `tablename`, num, `{$tableOptions['titleField']}` as `_title`, ";

to this:

    if(is_array($tableOptions['titleField'])){
      $fieldArray = array();
      foreach($tableOptions['titleField'] as $option){
        $fieldArray[] = "`$option`";
      }
      $fieldString = implode(",", $fieldArray);
      $subquery         = "SELECT '$tablename' as `tablename`, num, CONCAT($fieldString) as `_title`, ";
    }else{
      $subquery         = "SELECT '$tablename' as `tablename`, num, `{$tableOptions['titleField']}` as `_title`, ";
    }

Once this code has been added, you can use an array of fields in your titleField value, for example like this:

$searchTables['blog'] = array(
  'viewerUrl' => 'test.php',
  'titleField' => array('title', 'subject'),
  'summaryField' => 'content',
  'searchFields' => array('title','subject','content'),
  'field1' =>  'createdDate',
);


Then the code you've added to the viewer_functions will combine the two fields into one using the MySQL concat function.

Let me know if you have any questions. 

Cheers

Greg

Perfect Greg!

Any way that I can add separators like a comma or space?

It would be great to be able to have first_name surname - position (ie. separate with a space and a "-" as required)

Hey Greg - that works perfectly!

Can I suggest that this be included in future releases?

Hi Tim,

At some point soon we'd like to rewrite the multi search functionality completely (it's still technically an experimental feature), so we'll leave this functionality out for now.

I've also just found a much easier method for getting multiple fields and displaying their content:

$searchTables['blog'] = array(
'viewerUrl'    => 'test.php',
'titleField'   => 'title',
'summaryField' => 'content',
'searchFields' => array('title','subject','content'),
'field1'       => 'createdDate',
'field2'       => 'subject'
);


So you can use field1 to field10 to retrieve as many additional fields for a section as you require, then you can display the extra content like this:

<a class="search-result-title" href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $title_prefix ?> &raquo; <strong><?php echo $record['_title'] ?> - <?php echo $record['field2']; ?></strong></a>


This functionality is already built into CMS Builder, so there is not need to make changes to the core code either.

Cheers

Greg