Hey guys,

I'm 90% through building a site using Silverstripe (2.4), it's coming along well but I've hit a problem.

I need the search form to search inside a few custom fields in "DatabasePage" - Address, Category, Description - and as I've discovered it's not currently possible to search the custom fields.

I also need to display a few of the custom fields in the results page.

So just a little bit stuck, does anyone know how to solve these two problems?

Thanks,

Stewart

Are you talking ModelAdmin?

No, just the normal CMS/Pages bit.

I have had a look at ModelAdmin and might spend a few hours tomorrow seeing if it's easier to do it that way.

Ok, sorry can't be of much more help then...

You can check the http://silverstripe.org/sphinx-module module.

After speaking with the client they want to keep their current shared hosting plan so Sphinx is out of the window sadly. Thanks for the suggestion though, looked almost perfect.

I've managed to work out a slightly awkward way of getting search working - use the Meta > Keywords bit to add in "Tags"... however I can't pull out the custom fields of each search result, has anyone managed to do this?

ahhhh I mis understood... might something like this help...

in Page.php

/**
 * Process and render search results
 */
function results($data, $form){
	$data = array(
	'Results' => $form->getResults(),
	'Query' => $form->getSearchQuery(),
	'Title' => 'Search Results'
	);



	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Start Custom

	$arrSearchQuery = explode(' ',$form->getSearchQuery());
	$strSearchQuery = '%'.implode('%',$arrSearchQuery).'%';

	$dos = DataObject::get('YOURDATAOBJECT',"FIELD LIKE '".$strSearchQuery."'");

	//make our our result set
	$dosNewRestults = new DataObjectSet();

	if ($dos)
	{
		$arr = $dos->toArray();
		foreach ($arr as $do)
		{
			$p = new Page();
			$p->Title = $do->SOMEFIELD;
			$p->URLSegment = 'SOMEURL?POSTVAR='.$do->SOMEFIELD;;
			$p->Content = $do->SOMEFIELD;;
			$p->Name = $do->SOMEFIELD;;
			$p->Relevance = 1;
			$p->CanViewType = 'Anyone';

			$dosNewRestults->push($p);
		}
	}


	//strip out the html from the results and append them to the results
	//above - so that the ones with things to buy are first
	if ($data['Results']->Count() > 0)
	{
		$arr = $data['Results']->toArray();
		foreach ($arr as $do)
		{
			$do->Content = strip_tags($do->Content);
			$dosNewRestults->push($do);
		}
	}

	$data['Results'] = $dosNewRestults;
	// End Custom
	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////



	return $this->customise($data)->renderWith(array('Page_results', 'Page'));
}

It ain't the best, but it might help.

Barry

Thanks Barry!

I'll take a look at it this afternoon and see what happens :)