Overzealous Search Engine!

[zefeena]

Hi, I sell a lot of very similar items, so the description for the items is the same, with the changeable details (size, colour) etc in the title. When customers use the quick find it brings up everything! On my old site the search facility only to searched the product title, now it appears to be searching the description too. If a customer types in 'black 16mm elastic' I want them to only see a list of black 16mm elastics, instead they see everything, with black/1/6/16/elastic in the description or title! Pages and pages of stuff. Anyone any ideas how I could just get it back to searching the title. Thank you, Kellie

[Bob Terveuren]

Hi

 

osC 2.3 has the search in description option from 2.2 hard coded in so it always searches there.

 

To fix it grab a copy of 2.2 and compare to 2.3 for the advanced_search page -for the quick find box try this (not tested here but you'll get the idea)

 

Find the file bm_search .php and this code in it

 

  $data = '<div class="ui-widget infoBoxContainer">' .
		  '  <div class="ui-widget-header infoBoxHeading">' . MODULE_BOXES_SEARCH_BOX_TITLE . '</div>' .
		  '  <div class="ui-widget-content infoBoxContents" style="text-align: center;">' .
		  '    ' . tep_draw_form('quick_find', tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH_RESULT, '', 'NONSSL', false), 'get') .
		  '    ' . tep_draw_input_field('keywords', '', 'size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: 75%"') . ' ' . tep_draw_hidden_field('search_in_description', '1') . tep_hide_session_id() . tep_image_submit('button_quick_find.gif', MODULE_BOXES_SEARCH_BOX_TITLE) . '<br />' . MODULE_BOXES_SEARCH_BOX_TEXT . '<br /><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH) . '"><strong>' . MODULE_BOXES_SEARCH_BOX_ADVANCED_SEARCH . '</strong></a>' .
		  '    </form>' .
		  '  </div>' .
		  '</div>';

 

either remove the tep_draw_hidden_field('search_in_description', '1') or else alter the 1 to something like 2 or 0

[zefeena]

Thank you, changing the number to 2 seems to have worked! It took a little while to find the file. it is in catalogue/includes/modules/boxes