search only one section?

Andrew · 2006-03-21 22:52:56

Thanks, tinyfly. Hm… doesn’t seem to have what I need. Each angle I look at it, search needs to be reworked a bit in publish.php & search.php, but I’m not quite fluent enough in the subtlties to know what not to touch.

Andrew · 2006-03-23 00:17:18

So no one’s got any ideas?

leith1 · 2006-08-21 21:37:04

Anyone who has solved this – please post. I am running several sites and want to use a single textpattern install. Divide the content between sites using sections:

section1 – site 1 content only
section2 – site 2 content only
section3 – content for both site1 and site2

Then have a search on site1 that returns results from sections 1 and 3. And have a search on site2 that returns results from sections 2 and 3.

Any suggestions anyone?

ruud · 2006-08-21 21:45:41

<del>section1 -> the search tag has attribute section=“section1”, the article tag has searchall=0
section2 -> the search tag has attribute section=“section2”, the article tag has searchall=0
section3 -> the search tag has attribute section=“section3”, the article tag has searchall=1
This assumes that you just have site 1 and site 2 and that section 3 is just for searching both sites.</del>

Sorry, I misunderstood. What you seem to be looking for is the option to set which sections to search in the article tag by using section=“section1,section2” there (or something close to that), but that isn’t supported by the TXP article tag as far as I can tell.
Have you looked at the chh_article_custom plugin mentioned above?

Last edited by ruud (2006-08-21 23:49:23)

leith1 · 2006-08-21 22:40:06

Ruud,

Thanks but I’m not sure it will work.

Your assumption that Section 3 is only there to classify content to be included in both site’s searches is correct. But I want the site 1 search to search sections 1 and 3, and site 2 search to search sections 2 and 3. Only a single search box on each of site 1 and site 2.

From what you wrote it seems (am I incorrect?) that I would need 2 search boxes on each site (1 that searched it’s section and one that searched section3 content).

leith1 · 2006-08-22 18:22:35

Thanks. That plugin might work if I used the hierarchical category search feature. I would rather stick to using sections and categories as I understand TXP defines them. I made the following 2-line modifications to the /textpattern/textpattern/publish.php code:

warning: Since I am new to TXP (1st implementation) I doubt this is highly recommended. Upgrading to a newer version of TXP will wipe our your modifications. Other unpredictable behaviour may arise which I’ve not found yet.

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TXP Version: 4.03
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CONTEXT: based on comments #39-41 in the discussion above. Assume you want to do what I wanted to do and have a search box that searches the current section (assumed to be section1 in the code below) as well as the always-searched section3 and section4. Note that making these modifications results in any/every search on your site always searching the section3 and section4 content regardless of what other settings you have in the admin panels.

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MOD #1: this is the standard way of limiting a search to one section.
see: http://textpattern.org/tips/427/restricting-search-to-one-section
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Modify your search_input tag on the page template where you want this section-specific search box to appear to include the section attribute which specifies the section that the search should be limited to:

Modify your article tag on the page template to specify the attribute searchall to limit the search to the current section plus the global ones (requires MOD #2 below to function properly):

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MOD #2:
FILE: /textpattern/textpattern/publish.php (back it up 1st)
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FIND: this line (~540): <code>$section = (!$section) ? ‘’ : “ and Section = ‘”.doslash($section).”’”;</code>

MODIFICATIONS:
Replace the line above with the following 3 lines:

// $section = (!$section) ? ‘’ : “ and Section = ‘”.doslash($section).’”;
$section_all_search = “ Section = ‘section3’ or Section = ‘section4’ “;
$section = (!$section) ? “ and ($section_all_search)” : “ and (Section = ‘“.doslash($section).”’ or $section_all_search) “;

Change the 2nd line above to reflect the sections that you want included in every search anywhere on your site. You would be replacing ‘section3’ and ‘section4’ in line 2 above with your section names that you wanted to be searched every time.

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If there are problems with this code or someone has an improvement please post to let me know.

Last edited by leith1 (2006-08-22 20:42:25)

ruud · 2006-08-22 18:37:19

If you replace it with the following line, it would give you the option of using a comma separated list of sections in the section attribute of the txp:article tag (section=“section_1,section_2”) instead of hardcoding a specific section:
<code>$section = (!$section) ? ‘’ : “ and (Section = ‘” . join(“’ or Section = ‘”, array_map(‘doslash’, explode(‘,’, $section))) . “’)”;</code>

leith1 · 2006-08-22 18:50:15

ruud, that’s a much better idea. The problem remains that this should probably be part of the original publish.php TXP release instead of requiring a mod. Not sure if suggestions here are considered for subsequent releases or not…

I tested it though and adding a ‘section’ attribute to the article tag isn’t picked up in publish.php. I like the idea of specifying the additional sections to be searched in the article tag so I added an attribute ‘searchmore’ to the article tag where I specified the additional categories that should be searched. I needed to modify the publish.php file to accomodate the additional attribute. I’ve redone the code mod description above to show all the steps with this new non-hard-coding approach.

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TXP Version: 4.03
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CONTEXT: based on comments #39-41 in the discussion above. Assume you want to do what I wanted to do and have a search box that searches the current section (assumed to be section1 in the code below) as well as the always-searched section3 and section4.

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MOD #1: limit the search to the current category
see also: http://textpattern.org/tips/427/restricting-search-to-one-section
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Modify your article tag on the page template to specify the attribute searchall to limit the search to the current section. Also add the searchmore attribute and comma-separate-list the additional sections you would like the search to look in.

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MOD #2:
FILE: /textpattern/textpattern/publish.php (back it up 1st)
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FIND: this code (~500): <code>‘searchall’ => ‘’,</code>
ADD: this code to the next line: <code>‘searchmore’ => ‘’,</code>

This defines a new attribute to be used with the <code><txp:article /></code> tag.

FIND: this line (~540): <code>$section = (!$section) ? ‘’ : “ and Section = ‘”.doslash($section).”’”;</code>
ADD: the following lines after it

<code>
// if searching include any searchmore attribute sections in search
if (($searchmore != ‘’) && $q) { $section = ($section = = ‘’) ? “ and ( Section = ‘” . join(“’ or Section = ‘”, array_map(‘doslash’, explode(‘,’, $searchmore))) . “’)” : str_replace(‘and Section’, ‘ and (Section’, $section). “ or Section = ‘” . join(“’ or Section = ‘”, array_map(‘doslash’, explode(‘,’, $searchmore))) . “’)”;
}
</code>

Note: the second line shows a space between ==. There should be no space there – the forum wouldn’t let me post the double equal sign without a space.

Now when a search is performed if the searchmore attribute is defined, all those sections specified in the searchmore attribute will be searched. Other undesirable implications may arise from this code – not entirely tested yet.

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Last edited by leith1 (2006-08-22 20:53:27)

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