Quick Find: Need to search Description field

[ariens]

Currently, my quick find box doesn't query against the product description. I've investigated adding this but all my attempts have failed...

 

I've tried appending a get parameter to the quick_find form, however it gets overwritten somewhere in the process... I've attempted adding a hidden field to the form, but for the life of me I can't seem to reverse engineer the constructor for the class that generates the form...

 

Without changing the logic in advanced_search_results.php to always check against the description, I can't seem to get this working...

 

Can someone please lend a hand?

[Guest]

Dave, there's a nice little Contribution called Search Box Anywhere that has some great bits of code. i used it to add the form to my header and then I dropped the Infobox for it completely. The search is Advanced, too, not just product names. Very clean and simple!

[xinirnix]

I did it by adding following piece of code :

 

 . tep_draw_hidden_field('search_in_description','1')

 

to this part of the code in search.php in /catalog/includes/boxes/

 

  $info_box_contents[] = array('form' => tep_draw_form('quick_find', tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH_RESULT, '', 'NONSSL', false), 'get'),
						   'align' => 'center',
						   'text' => tep_draw_input_field('keywords', '', 'size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: ' . (BOX_WIDTH-30) . 'px"') . ' ' . tep_hide_session_id() . tep_image_submit('button_quick_find.gif', BOX_HEADING_SEARCH) . '<br>' . BOX_SEARCH_TEXT . '<br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH) . '"><b>' . BOX_SEARCH_ADVANCED_SEARCH . '</b></a>');

 

giving this as result:

  $info_box_contents[] = array('form' => tep_draw_form('quick_find', tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH_RESULT, '', 'NONSSL', false), 'get') . tep_draw_hidden_field('search_in_description','1'),
						   'align' => 'center',
						   'text' => tep_draw_input_field('keywords', '', 'size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: ' . (BOX_WIDTH-30) . 'px"') . ' ' . tep_hide_session_id() . tep_image_submit('button_quick_find.gif', BOX_HEADING_SEARCH) . '<br>' . BOX_SEARCH_TEXT . '<br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH) . '"><b>' . BOX_SEARCH_ADVANCED_SEARCH . '</b></a>');

 

It seems to work, but don't shoot me because I am a complete php-dump.

 

Xinirnix