multiSearch - How to Exclude Records from Search

Probably with a checkbox field. Something like Searchable record: Yes/No

Where if No selected, then the record could be exclude it.

Hi, Damon -

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately the "hidden" option is already factored into this set-up. There are some records which are hidden on the site - which multiSearch will not find. Then there are some records which are visible but which I want to exclude from multiSearch.

For example this could include a "Thank you" page after a user has filled in a form. It's not hidden - I just don't want the search to find it!

:0)

Perch

The best method is to use hidden checkbox and ignoreHidden option to show hidden records on the site but not in the search results. This works well because the search results number of records found and the prev and next links based on a set number of results will work correctly.

But, if this isn't going to work with your setup, then another option is to create a new checkbox to Hide from multSearch.  Here are the steps to setup:

In your multi-search page, edit to add the blue code:

$searchTables['new'] = array(
'viewerUrl' => '/news_detail.php',
'titleField' => 'title',
'summaryField' => 'content',
'field1' => 'hide_from_multsearch',
'searchFields' => array('title','content'),
);



Next further down in the code right after the foreach loop to display the results add this blue code:

<!-- STEP2: Display Record List -->
<?php foreach ($searchRows as $record): ?>
<?php //showme($record); ?>
<?php if($record['field1'] == 1) { continue; } ?>

This will skip records with field1 (hide_from_multsearch) is checked (1).

The problem with this method is you will need to either remove the number of search results and pagination results or recreate them with code. So for example to get the number of search results, you could setup a counter and then output the results.

Let me know what you think.