Good morning all

Is there anyway to have the progressive search work in my search section at the top of my pages as well as the actual search.php page?

Many thanks in advance.
Tim

Tim Jones
TJ Motorsport
https://www.tjmotorsport.co.uk

Hi Tim
Yes there is, just have a look at the second post here...
https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=111791

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Hi Tim,

Just change the following below in your main.dwt file from

<form method="post" action="../search.php">
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="nobox" value="true">
<input type="text" class="search_input" name="stext" id="SearchProducts" placeholder="Search Products">
<input class="btnSearch" type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

to

<form method="post" action="../search.php" id="ecttextform">
<input type="hidden" name="nobox" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="1">
<div style="position:relative">
<input type="text" maxlength="128" class="search_input" value="" name="stext" id="ecttext" onkeydown="return ectAutoSrchKeydown(this,event,'php')" onblur="ectAutoHideCombo(this)" autocomplete="off" />
</div>
<div class="autosearch" style="position:absolute;display:none" id="selectecttext"></div>
<input class="btnSearch" type="submit" value="Search">
</form>



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Thank you again Vince and Phil, much appreciated.
Regards
Tim

Tim Jones
TJ Motorsport
https://www.tjmotorsport.co.uk

im running 7.14 and trying to get better search results for both the top search box and search.php.

Ive started playing with this and tried to enter $maxautosearch=5 to check results and for some reason the results have not been reduced to 5.
Can I have done something incorrectly?

The parameter looks correct. Did you upload the edited includes.php file to the correct location?

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Vince I added it to both my normal vsadmin and the hidden admin folder in the includes.

Ahhh, could it be that you are getting up to 9 results? The thing is, if there are not maxautosearch results from matches on the product id / name then a further 5 results are taken from matches on the product descriptions.

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Vince just so Im understanding this correctly. When I search with a$maxautosearch=5 set. Should only 5 products be shown in the search? If thats the case, its not working for me.


Also the reason I started this was the search does some weird things. For example, when I do this search for "anti"

https://www.offshoreelectrics.com/search.php?pg=1&stext=anti&sprice=&stype=&scat=&sortby=6&sfil0=&x=0&y=0

The first product that shows up is this product, ama-390050 and Im not sure why? There is no "anti" in the text
https://www.offshoreelectrics.com/proddetail.php?prod=ama-390050

"Ahhh, could it be that you are getting up to 9 results? The thing is, if there are not maxautosearch results from matches on the product id / name then a further 5 results are taken from matches on the product descriptions."

32 items show up.

If I do the search for "anti", doing the anti search, the items with "anti" in the product title dont show up until the 5th product.

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Also the reason I started this was the search does some weird things. For example, when I do this search for "anti"

https://www.offshoreelectrics.com/search.php?pg=1&stext=anti&sprice=&stype=&scat=&sortby=6&sfil0=&x=0&y=0

The first product that shows up is this product, ama-390050 and Im not sure why? There is no "anti" in the text

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The reason that product shows up is because it has "antique" in the product description.

The way the search works on the search page is first the product name / id is searched and these will be the most relevant results. If there are not enough results to fill the page then the description is searched. But, the results for the first pages of results are then sorted as per the sort order. It's kind of guaranteeing that the more relevant results will show up on the first page but not necessarily in first position of that page.

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32 items show up.

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For this, if you type an "a" in the search for box, then 5 results are displayed in a drop down menu. This is the progressive search and this is what the parameter is for. You are looking at the search results.

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In my example of "anti", there are 14 items with "anti" in the prod id. But those items do not show up first. And thats why I'm confused. Shouldn't those 14 be enough to fill the page and not display, and not have to then search the description for the random text?

Hi Steven, you can stop the search from looking in the long description with the parameter

$nosearchlongdescription=TRUE;

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Streamlining search

If you have a very large database and the search feature is running slow you can use the following entries to disable search on certain criteria...

$nosearchdescription=TRUE;

$nosearchlongdescription=TRUE;

$nosearchsku=TRUE;

$nosearchparams=TRUE;

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Thanks Dave, Ill keep that in mind.

But shouldn't the search hit the product id first?

For example, I do a search for ose-80050, which is a product id, and the product is the last item on the search page. why would that be?

Hi Steven
I kind of covered that here...

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The way the search works on the search page is first the product name / id is searched and these will be the most relevant results. If there are not enough results to fill the page then the description is searched. But, the results for the first pages of results are then sorted as per the sort order. It's kind of guaranteeing that the more relevant results will show up on the first page but not necessarily in first position of that page.

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In this case it does seem a bit bad luck where the product id match is the very last one to display but that would be because of the sort order you have set.

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Vince Im sorry to be a hard head about this, but Im trying to figure it out and why.

I can understand about the ose-80085 item, there are very few items with that in the pro id or text.

But what about the "anti-" search, there are 14 items with anti in the prod id. I thought the $maxautosearch=5 would reduce the searches and only the items with the "anti-" in the pro id would show up? What am I missing?

The progressive search is just the drop down that gets populated progressively while you are typing in the search box. It has nothing at all to do with the results that are generated once you it "Search". However, if you typed "ose-80050" then the one item in that dropdown would be "Inline Catamaran Strut and Rudder System". If you used that for your search query then only 3 items appear, one of which is the actual "ose-80050" item. So that is the reason the progressive search is so helpful for searching.

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Thanks! That clears it up.