Search by sku

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#1

Hello,



is it possible to add a featured that permit to customers to search a product by it’s product sku in the quick search field?



Thank’s

Luca

#2

I thought it does that already? I took my search select away, but remember it was there.

#3

I wanted to do that (take the select box away), but got cold feet.



Could you please describe what code you left in the search box template?

#4

in advanced search you can

#5

rmt,

To get rid of the select box, I just commented the code out in side_boxes/search.tpl:

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The first comment gets rid of the search text which I think is rather redundant.
#6

Actually, my page got a little wonky from that and I had to comment this too:


{*include file="common_templates/sidebox.tpl" title=$lang.quick_search content=$smarty.capture.sidebox icon="sidebox_icon_search.gif"*}




Apparently my tables got stretched, havnt thought more about it.

#7

Thanks for posting. I’ll give it a try in the morning.



Ideally, I want to dump the select box and automatically have the search function search everything… much like the advanced search with every oprion selected.

#8

I understand, but thats not done because its intensive. You dont’ want your customers having their browsers freeze when they try to search.

#9

[quote name=‘Tail’s’]I understand, but thats not done because its intensive. You dont’ want your customers having their browsers freeze when they try to search.[/QUOTE]You could create indexes for the advanced search options.

#10

[quote name=‘Tail’s’]I understand, but thats not done because its intensive. You dont’ want your customers having their browsers freeze when they try to search.[/QUOTE]

Well how do so many other ecommerce types allow for this?



At numerous e-stores, I can type in a SKU or any term and get a thorough list of results in a timely manner. Doesn’t matter if I type in a description, product name, feature, etc…

#11

Most likely they run on a dedicated server. It can be done, but those of you running cheap shared hosting…your hosting provider can shut you down if your scripts hog the server resources.



So you can set this up, no problem, just be aware of the load it could create on your server.

#12

[quote name=‘ETInteractive’]Most likely they run on a dedicated server. It can be done, but those of you running cheap shared hosting…your hosting provider can shut you down if your scripts hog the server resources.



So you can set this up, no problem, just be aware of the load it could create on your server.[/QUOTE]





so if we have a dedicated server and we want to enable search buy SKU, how do we go about doing this…

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