Search My Blog

General General Questions
1

Has anyone managed to customize the quick search standard text box to search for blog posts?

I think it would be awesome to get the search to do this.

I know in admin -settings there has been a checkbox for ages to check for Search Also In: Pages.

any suggestions?

Thanks

2

Has anyone managed to customize the quick search standard text box to search for blog posts?

Do you mean admin panel or store-front?

3

From the store front using the quick search box that is default with cscart.

4

From the store front using the quick search box that is default with cscart.

Enable search in pages, open the app/functions/fn.search.php file and replace

    if (AREA != 'A') {
        $params['status'] = 'A';
    }

with

    if (AREA != 'A') {
        $params['status'] = 'A';
        $params['page_type'] = array('T', 'L', 'F', 'B');
    }

There is also the create_pages_condition_pre hook there. You can use it to extend function with the addon

5

Thanks again ecomm for the reply and sorry for my delay in checking. I added the 1 line to my PHP file and even cleared the var/cache folder (which I know doesnt need to be done in terms of PHP changes) but it didnt seem to work.

I put the exact words from the page title of my blog in the quick search box and got 0 results.

Any other thoughts on it?

Thanks again in advance

6

It works on my local installation

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Please make sure that the changes were added to the fn_create_pages_condition function

7

ecomlabs

Thanks for taking the time to share this with me.

I will give it another try. Maybe I did something wrong.

Many thanks again.

8

Ecomlab

i see what my issue was - i read your reply to quickly and missed this part of it

"Enable search in pages"

So i hadnt done that step.

I have now enabled that and yes my blog posts come up in the results mixed with products and pages etc.

I guess I just need to work on the display so the products are shown with their thumbnail like a normal product search originally.

Thanks

9

Yes, another template is used for mixed search results:

design/themes/THEME/templates/views/search/results.tpl