Can I customize the search facility to exclude descriptions?

[bonny]

Can anybody please tell me how to customize my search facility so that the quick search results show only hits from the product title and the product attributes, excluding the product description.

Thanks in advance.

[shrimp-gumbo-mmmhhh]

I do not believe product_attributes is used in the search. However, if you know how to program you can look in the search code and modify the code so that product_description is not used.

I believe this is the file to modify

/public_html/includes/languages/english/advanced_search_result.php

[DrByte]

Um, no, you won't find it in a language file.

To tell the search not to use the description, simply set the right parameter: Use the Developers Toolkit and search the catalog-side template files for search_in_description = 1 and change it to 0 instead of 1 in the appropriate file ... typically either tpl_search.php or tpl_search_header.php depending on which search box you're using.

[bonny]

Thank you for that Dr Byte, will look into that. Is there any way to include attributes in the search results?

[DrByte]

Including attributes in search results will require custom coding, as that's not a built-in feature at the present time.

You can post an ad for paid help in the Commercial Help Wanted section of the forum if that's something you're interested in.

[reuben]

Um, no, you won't find it in a language file.

To tell the search not to use the description, simply set the right parameter: Use the Developers Toolkit and search the catalog-side template files for search_in_description = 1 and change it to 0 instead of 1 in the appropriate file ... typically either tpl_search.php or tpl_search_header.php depending on which search box you're using.

This worked for me.
Edit /includes/templates/your_template/sideboxes/tpl_search.php
Note that this applies the change only the quick search sidebox.

Thanks Dr. Byte.

Reuben

[bonny]

A million thanks Reuben

Can you work your mojo on the attribute search problem too?

[fergusmacdonald]

On my version, the code is not

search_in_description = 1

but

'search_in_description', '1'

and you can find it in two files:

/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_search.php

and

/includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_search_header.php

If you want to change this, move the files to:
/includes/templates/YOUR_CUSTOM_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/
and edit the line

'search_in_description', '1'

to be

'search_in_description', '0'

Hope this helps.