Search Helper Support Thread

[swguy]

A new contribution called Search Helper has been added to the download area.

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=856

Description : Search Helper allows you to correct common misspellings (or
alternate spellings) in the search terms your customers use, and allows you
to add search keywords to a page based on the presence of other keywords.
You may also optionally make these terms visible on your product info pages.

More help here:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca...ch_helper.html

SoftwareGuy

[thomasharding]

Fantastic idea for a module this mate, personally though, I feel you should be able to define the keywords in the admin area - would be helpful for people without FTP access, like a restricted administrator.

I hope you'll be able to incorporate this someday as I'd love to roll this out for a lot of our clients in the future.

[samar777]

Hi, Just Installed this module and it seems to be working fine. Great idea btw. Thank you.

a question:

What are you supposed to do in /languages/English/extra_definitions/search_helper.php?
Whats the format to add keywords there? and what does that do?


Thanks for your help.

[swguy]

You don't add keywords to ./includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/search_helper.php; it just has the one string in it.

The keywords go into ./includes/functions/extra_functions/search_helper.php

[samar777]

Thanks Scott.

I have added keywords to the second file and it all seems to work real well. Very helpful module indeed.

another question/ thought/ may idea for a new mod:

Like at all major sites like Amazon, or ebay, as you try to search for something, their site will start to 'suggest' keywords/products/phrases to you. Can you this is done in here?


example: if you go to eBay and start to type 'iphone.." it will show a light drop down with all things related to iphone.

[zubenubi]

Thanks Scott.

I have added keywords to the second file and it all seems to work real well. Very helpful module indeed.

another question/ thought/ may idea for a new mod:

Like at all major sites like Amazon, or ebay, as you try to search for something, their site will start to 'suggest' keywords/products/phrases to you. Can you this is done in here?


example: if you go to eBay and start to type 'iphone.." it will show a light drop down with all things related to iphone.

This is something I'd like to have too. Is there any-more news on whether or not this could be done?

[swguy]

It's beyond the scope of this mod.

[swguy]

Here's a great article from Linda Bustos of Elastic Path about what she calls a "Site Search Thesaurus."

http://www.getelastic.com/7-sources-...rch-thesaurus/

This is what Search Helper is designed to help you create.

[horsetags]

Very handy mod, thank you, and although i have an odd problem, i am not worried as i will live with it.

On the product info page i put the code to show the customer what they searched.

(1.3.9h btw)

I set up 2 sets of words to test -

$this->add_keyword('embelishments', 'Embellishments', SEARCH_HELPER_NO_DISPLAY);
$this->add_keyword('fish', 'dolphins', SEARCH_HELPER_DISPLAY);

When i typed in fish, it worked perfectly, showing 'fish' as the searched word, but the SEARCH_HELPER_NO_DISPLAY word showed up on the page also, although not related to fish or dolphins.

I have removed the code in the tpl_product_info_display.php and the add on works great and i can live without it.

I just wondered what i was doing wrong?

Kind regards

Paul

[swguy]

No idea. When installed correctly, it works.