Suggestions for a front end search for migxdb

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rrswans Reply #1, 10 years, 8 months ago

I'm just looking to make a simple front-end search for my migxdb. Nothing fancy just want to search by keyword. I used bloX to do it a year or so ago, but that method isn't working anymore. I don't see any documentation for bloX, so wondering if there is another way or a good tutorial to follow?

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 10 years, 8 months ago

bloX should still work, doesn't it?

otherwise, you can simply use something like:

[[!migxLoopCollection?
&packageName=`yourPackage`
&classname=`yourClass`
&tpl=`searchTpl`
&where=`{"content:LIKE":"%[[!getReqParam? &name=`search`]]%"}`
]]

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rrswans Reply #3, 10 years, 8 months ago

I think I'm missing a step here. With both this solution above and the bloX solution I was using, I'm getting a list from my migxdb, but it's just giving me a list of entires. It's not actually searching them. My actual search chunk is on this page, but also appears on other pages. My chunk looks like this:

			<form id="search" action="[[~49]]" method="get" name="search">

				<input type="text" class="focusHere" name="keywords" value="[[+keywords]]" />
				
				<input type="submit" value="Search" name="search"/>
			</form>

Resource 49 is where I want the results, I put this code in:

			<div class="artRow">
				
					[[!migxLoopCollection?
				 &packageName=`artGallery`
				&classname=`artGallery`
				 &tpl=`galleryTemplateSm`
				&where=`{"content:LIKE":"%[[!getReqParam?
				&name=`keywords`]]%"}`
					]]

			</div>

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Bruno17 Reply #4, 10 years, 8 months ago

the getReqParam - snippet is installed?

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http://webcmsolutions.de/migx.html

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 10 years, 8 months ago

and you need to change the field, where you want to search

&where=`{"content:LIKE":"%[[!getReqParam? &name=`keywords`]]%"}`

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you can buy me a beer, if you like MIGX

http://webcmsolutions.de/migx.html

Thanks!

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rrswans Reply #6, 10 years, 8 months ago

Thanks again Bruno. Your solution was right. I didn't realize getReqParam was a package. I also didn't realize that I needed to change the "content" to one of my MIGXDB fields. Once I did those two things it worked great!

This was the final line I used.

	&where=`{"title:LIKE":"%[[!getReqParam? &name=`keyword`]]%"}`

This was really helpful to me. I figured out a few other things too