UncleSteve Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Like many others I've added many additional pages of information outside the product data files. Even at the top of product categories. Trouble is, the OSC search engine/facility only searches the product titles and descriptions, so customers looking for information picked up by outside search engines (google and the like) won't find a thing! My host offers a basic search facility using "Entropy Search", but this is too intrusive, as it searches files like my sql back-ups and so on. It would be nice to stop it searching through files such as "txt" "sql" "bak" and so on. It would also be nice to prevent it searching certain directories as well. Someone must have some experience of such a 'product'. Thanks in advance of any leads tips etc. :) BTW. There didn't seem to be anything in the contribs. folder. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfittsy Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Like many others I've added many additional pages of information outside the product data files. Even at the top of product categories. Trouble is, the OSC search engine/facility only searches the product titles and descriptions, so customers looking for information picked up by outside search engines (google and the like) won't find a thing! My host offers a basic search facility using "Entropy Search", but this is too intrusive, as it searches files like my sql back-ups and so on. It would be nice to stop it searching through files such as "txt" "sql" "bak" and so on. It would also be nice to prevent it searching certain directories as well. Someone must have some experience of such a 'product'. Thanks in advance of any leads tips etc. :) BTW. There didn't seem to be anything in the contribs. folder. What format are the pages you want to 'search' in? The need to search kind of necessitates having the information in a database. You might consider adding a few tables to the database that can hold the information you are displaying on your other pages. Then just have the pages display the information from the database instead of hard-coding your information in html or php or however you are doing it. If you did that, you could just have two queries on your search results page. One that would bring up the matching products, and just below (or above, however you want really) it could bring up the results from your other information. That is definetly the approach I would take (and intend to take when I add more information to my site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSteve Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 What format are the pages you want to 'search' in? The need to search kind of necessitates having the information in a database. You might consider adding a few tables to the database that can hold the information you are displaying on your other pages. Then just have the pages display the information from the database instead of hard-coding your information in html or php or however you are doing it. If you did that, you could just have two queries on your search results page. One that would bring up the matching products, and just below (or above, however you want really) it could bring up the results from your other information. That is definetly the approach I would take (and intend to take when I add more information to my site.) Hi, I'm trying to have my pages in php, but I've still got some as html from my old website. Adding my pages to a database sounds interesting (if only I knew how), but what about the information I've added above all the products in the various categories? Would it be possible to add that to a database as well? And... very important, would the online search engins still find that information? At present, a selectable/formatable search facility seems like the easiest so far... if only I could find one :huh: ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSteve Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 What format are the pages you want to 'search' in? The need to search kind of necessitates having the information in a database. You might consider adding a few tables to the database that can hold the information you are displaying on your other pages. Then just have the pages display the information from the database instead of hard-coding your information in html or php or however you are doing it. If you did that, you could just have two queries on your search results page. One that would bring up the matching products, and just below (or above, however you want really) it could bring up the results from your other information. That is definetly the approach I would take (and intend to take when I add more information to my site.) As it's my thread ;) Sorry, forgot to ask... I like your contrib. "Free SMS Text Message Order Notification v1.0". Does it work with UK mobiles? Using the information you supplied together with a link, I tried to send a message to my Orange network phone and failed :( First I tried [email protected], then tried [email protected]. Any ideas please? Thanks :) (BTW not my real number) ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfittsy Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hi, I'm trying to have my pages in php, but I've still got some as html from my old website. Adding my pages to a database sounds interesting (if only I knew how), but what about the information I've added above all the products in the various categories? Would it be possible to add that to a database as well? And... very important, would the online search engins still find that information? At present, a selectable/formatable search facility seems like the easiest so far... if only I could find one :huh: Nearly anything you can display on your html pages you can add to the database. I mean, if they are hard coded now you could change each page to a very specific call to the database. If your layout is similar from one page to another it would be ideal and you could have the database calls come from the product id or the basename of the php page calling it for example. On the SMS gateway it will work anywhere in the world as long as you've got the right sms gateway. I don't think you'll need to put the + in front of the number but you will need to find the right @domain.TLD. I searched briefly for orange and couldn't find one, but I'm pretty sure it's not @orange.net Try just sending a regular email to [email protected] or whatever possible gateways you find. If you get an email from your regular email account then set it up in osC and you shouldn't have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSteve Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 Nearly anything you can display on your html pages you can add to the database. I mean, if they are hard coded now you could change each page to a very specific call to the database. If your layout is similar from one page to another it would be ideal and you could have the database calls come from the product id or the basename of the php page calling it for example. On the SMS gateway it will work anywhere in the world as long as you've got the right sms gateway. I don't think you'll need to put the + in front of the number but you will need to find the right @domain.TLD. I searched briefly for orange and couldn't find one, but I'm pretty sure it's not @orange.net Try just sending a regular email to [email protected] or whatever possible gateways you find. If you get an email from your regular email account then set it up in osC and you shouldn't have any problems. Without getting too techy, how can I achieve your idea of moving the html pages in to the database please? Thanks Steve PS searched and searched for sms gateway for orange in the UK, nothing has worked so far. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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