search results based on Document's alias and not title

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ddools Reply #1, 18 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

im am trying to create a search that returns its results in the form of

Document Alias(that links to whichever page)>page description

ive had a search through a lot of the posts but cant track down something similar..

is it as simple as im calling things wrong or will i need to change the JS or?..

any help would be really appreciated (as always/usual

)

ddools

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coroico Reply #2, 18 years, 2 months ago

im am trying to create a search that returns its results in the form of

Document Alias(that links to whichever page)>page description

Do you mean that you want from the displayed results a link from each pagetitle to the document but rather a link with ?id=xx you would like a link with the alias of the document. Is it a correct understanding of your request ?

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ddools Reply #3, 18 years, 2 months ago

emm yes i think so,,, but just on a visual basis

so far as i can tell the default is something like:

xx pages found for "searchedterm"
|||pagiation||||

>Page Title <<where this is a link that can be linked to that page>>
>description
>opening paragraph of the page....

where as what i was hoping to do was

xx pages found for "searchedterm"
|||pagiation||||

>Page Alias <<where this is a link that can be linked to that page>>
>description
>opening paragraph of the page....

so the exact same functionality, but slightly different in appearance wise

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coroico Reply #4, 18 years, 2 months ago

I will add the field "alias" in the list of searchable fields (like ’pagetitle’,’longtitle’,’description’,’introtext’,’content’) to allow the displaying of the alias if required.

For the moment, if you can’t wait the official delivery of the release 1.8, download the 1.8 beta 1 from this post and in the file class/search.class.inc.php, in the function initSearchContext() , somewhere around the line 198, change:

              'searcheable' => array('pagetitle','longtitle','description','introtext','content'),

by

              'searcheable' => array('pagetitle','longtitle','description','alias','introtext','content'),

and then define your own result template (tplresult ou tplAjaxResult depending of the ajaxSearch mode you use) as follow (tplAjaxResult example):

<div class="[+as.resultClass+]">
  <a class="[+as.resultLinkClass+]" href="[+as.resultLink+]" title="[+as.longtitle+]">[+as.aliasShow:is=`1`:then=`[+as.alias+]`:else=`[+as.pagetitle+]`+]</a>
[+as.descriptionShow:is=`1`:then=`
  <span class="[+as.descriptionClass+]">[+as.description+]</span>
`+]
[+as.extractShow:is=`1`:then=`
  <div class="[+as.extractClass+]"><p>[+as.extract+]</p></div>
`+]
</div>

with: [+as.aliasShow:is=`1`:then=`[+as.alias+]`:else=`[+as.pagetitle+]`+], if the alias exists it will be used, otherwise pagetitle will be used.

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ddools Reply #5, 18 years, 2 months ago

wow, thanks very much coroico,

that’s impressively amazing,,,, thanks so much for your help,,,, ill try it now

ddools