The ZC search function is not great for my site because it only searches products. My site is light on products and heavy on articles.
So...I would like to know if it's feasible to integrate a 3rd party search engine that uses a spider to search and index the entire site. The search results page is a php file with a single php include command.
I've seen a few workarounds for integrating php code in ZC pages, so it seems to be technically possible, but are there are security or other reasons why I should not attempt to do this?
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3 May 2007, 01:44 PM #1
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3 May 2007, 02:31 PM #2
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
As the pages perse' do not exist until they are assembled for the DB data I doubt that a search engine can locate what you are trying to do
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3 May 2007, 04:32 PM #3
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
The pages are indexed with a spider - it sees and indexes pages exactly as a search engine like Google.
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3 May 2007, 09:22 PM #4
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
If your 3rd party engine does this, then try using it.
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9 May 2007, 06:01 AM #5
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include files in header of one page
This is coming along great, but I have last problem:
The search engine requires two files to be included in header of the search result page.
For testing purposes I've put these files in the includes/application_top.php file:
include('os2/config.php');
include('os2/head.php');
This works, except I get an error on the home page.
How do I include these files on only the search results page?
The search results page was created according to the about us page contribution and is called search_return.Last edited by paul3648; 9 May 2007 at 06:01 AM. Reason: clarification
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9 May 2007, 11:53 AM #6
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
try using the header_php.php file in your page.
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9 May 2007, 04:01 PM #7
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
When I do that I get a huge number of errors whenever I call the search_return page. Originally Posted by DrByte
The first error is this:
I guess what I'm trying to do is beyond my limited (non-existent) programming skills.Notice: Undefined variable: this_is_main_page in /home/teagen/public_html/newtest/includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php on line 51
Too bad, because it was almost there when I used the includes/application_top.php file.
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9 May 2007, 04:23 PM #8
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
What's in the files?
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10 May 2007, 05:32 AM #9
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
As far as I can tell, mostly database calls. I'm using a separate database from the ZC dB.What's in the files?
I'm attaching the two files.
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11 May 2007, 08:33 AM #10
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Re: Integrating 3rd party search engine
What does this file actually do? Does it insert data before the opening html tag? Originally Posted by DrByte
This is from the docs of the search engine I'm trying to use:
So can I use the header_php.php file for this?First you should see that there are two included files right at
the top of the page: "os2/config.php" and "os2/head.php". These files
set up the environment and handle the search process, so they must be
included in the results page *before* any HTML output. This means
before the <html> tag, and before any other whitespace. Otherwise you
will get many "Headers could not be sent" errors.
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