About The Multisearch.php

Hi Tom,

There is no fuzzy logic searching but you can get same results by entering keyword variations to each record.

What you could do is:
1. create a textbox or textfield in that section editor for search variation keywords.
2. add in the possible variations that users may search for:  abc-123, abc123 etc
3. the last step is to add the keywords field name to the 'searchFields' array.

Try this out and let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot Damon

Hello,

Sorry for trouble again.

I have created a field named ref_no1

And I intend to update the ref_no1 from ref_no

For example

In ref_no

ABC123

Then in ref_no1

ABC-123

I know how to do it in php

<?php
echo preg_replace('/^([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]+)$/i', '$1-$2', $listingsRecord['ref_no']);
?>

However I really don't know how to do it in mysql console to update the ref_no1 column.

Please advice.

Thanks a lot

Hey Tom, 

As an alternate approach, if dashes aren't needed and you're always searching for ref_no values what about just removing dashes from the keyword the user searches for?  So if they search for ABC-123 or ABC123 or -ABC123- it all searches for ABC123?

$searchOptions['keywords'] = str_replace('-', '', @$_REQUEST['q']); // remove dashes

Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot for your great help Dave.