Spice up your internal sNews CMS search page with result descriptions

Gerry MacOstair

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:25:47 +0000

Damn fine hack, Matt!
To give the search results a bit of "HTML5/Semantic code" flair, replacing the paragraphs with a description list were the decent thing to do, actually.
I'm too lazy to play "try and fail" with the comment editor until the code would display properly. If you are interested, give me a shout, I'll send you the changes via e-mail.
Cheers, Gerry

Matt

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:26:50 +0000

Yeah, the default search for sNews is quite limited, hence my use of Sphider.

Adding pagination shouldn't be *too hard*. I will add it to the list of requests, if I ever do manage to get some free time. :)

Tina

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:42:32 +0000

Hi Matt,
just thinking a bit afterwards. you know what would be nice to have ... a paging function for the searchresults, so that you can get all results, instead of just the predifined limit. I know it's probably not in your interest at the moment, since you have a different search engine implemented here, but if you ever have "nothing to do" (lol) ...

Tina

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:22:48 +0000

nice, thank you matt :)

Patric

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:34:56 +0000

A goodie one... Thanks.

Matt

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:16:24 +0000

Toolman, personally, my search function is all hacked up and uses MySQL full-text search to return ranked results, but for what you're asking, you can do this.

On a default snews.php, function search, look for

$query = $query.' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT '.$limit;
and change it to

$query = $query.' ORDER BY c.id DESC LIMIT '.$limit;

that will order by the category ids, not the article ids.

toolman

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:28:06 +0000

Simply and nice :D
Good work, again ;)

One question. How to sort search results by Categories/Titles not by ID?
For example:

catA
- artAB
- artBA
catB
- artAB
- artCC

I have many same titles in different categories and standard sorting not looking fine.

Sven - Philippe

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:47:42 +0000

Excellent! Bravo!

Matt

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:11:08 +0000

lol Vic :)

Almost too easy, huh? Soon, I'll also explain how to do the same in the tagsearch function in case someone can't figure it out.

Vic

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:06:44 +0000

Yay, finally! Thanks :-)