Go directly to resource with SimpleSearch if search query is exactly the same as pagetitle

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cleanboy Reply #1, 11 years, 2 months ago

Hey,

So I am using the SimpleSearch add on to search through my website but I am also using jquery autocomplete with a snippet that I wrote that just gets the pagetitles of resources under a certain parent and shows them in a drop down below the search bar.

People might want to search for something not in the parent category that I have specified so I would still like to keep a general search throughout the whole site but at the moment if someone selects one of the options from the dropdown it goes to the search results page with only that option as a result because it is an exact match for the pagetitle.

I was wondering if there is a way to make SimpleSearch go directly to the resource if the search is exactly the same as the pagetitle and there is only one result instead of taking the user to the results page and then having to click again on the single result to get to where they are trying to go.

SimpleSearch modx Docs page: http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/simplesearch

Thanks

Matt

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donshakespeare Reply #2, 11 years, 2 months ago

Will client-side code work for you?
Search is made, page loads, JS sees a match, and redirects.
To avoid mayhem, set SimpleSearch to be strict, whole sentence search, so that you don't have multiple entries

$(".resultPageTitleLink").each(function(){
if($(this).text() == $("#searchField").val())
//alert($(this).text());//for debug
window.location.replace(this.href);
})

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cleanboy Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for this...but if my understanding is correct then this code would only execute on the results page anyway? I am looking to skip that altogether as the user might find this somewhat confusing? Or would if just be a flash of the page? If nothing better comes up through here then I will implement this.

Thanks again!

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Bruno17 Reply #4, 11 years, 2 months ago

you could create a snippet like that:

<?php

$search = $modx->getOption('search',$_REQUEST,'');

if (!empty($search) && $object = $modx->getObject('modResource',array('published'=>'1','deleted'=>'0','pagetitle'=>$search))){
    $url = $modx->makeUrl($object->get('id'));
    $modx->sendRedirect($url);
}

and call it at the top of your search-landing-page.

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donshakespeare Reply #5, 11 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: Bruno17 at Jul 15, 2015, 06:44 AM

you could create a snippet like that...

There is code, and then there is magic!!!

This looks awesome.

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BobRay Reply #6, 11 years, 2 months ago

Cool idea, and an excellent example of what makes MODX so great. wink

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