Creating an add-on "product type book" for ZC 1.5

I had that issue also. I actually created a new table just for search.
But you could also had some indexes to the data base tables. (Ex: author name, publisher name, etc)
But I'm not on my desktop right now. But that's the way to go.

pititis:

Hello,

I'm unable to use simple or advanced_search. I have more than 100K books. It takes forever (and 100% CPU.) Server here is a new Xeon with 8 Gb Ram and SSD disk

Commenting the lines $extra_from and $extra_where in the function insert_book_attributes_into_search_query fix the issue (obviously) returning the search queries in no more than 1.4-1.6 seconds (0.5 when cached)

Sorry I'm not a mysql guy. Any clue please?

Cheers

Not sure if you manage to improve the queries search time, but, in phpmyadmin ( or) you could add some indexes, like:

ALTER TABLE product_bookx_authors
ADD INDEX idx_bxa_author_name (author_name ASC);

This would apply to isbn, publisher name, series_name, etc...

I run into this issue on about 10k books. But I did to separate things, one was add index keys to database, other was to create a new table that I actually needed to quick access.

I think with this extra indexes, is enough.

Thanks you,

Yes, yesterday that index was added to the product_bookx_authors table but I'm still playing with more indexes. I will add tomorrow the rest from your list.

I want to remove some LEFT JOIN to make the query better, the idea is to search into author, publisher and maybe genre.

Thanks for your time, I will post again soon.

Boas noites

Hi,

Finally I did a few modifications, in my case I want to add author in the search query (products_name OR products_model OR scrchba.author_name). isbn=model.

The unnecessary LEFT JOINS were deleted and the rest ( product_bookx_authors_to_products and product_bookx_authors) changed to INNER JOIN. it seems to be working fine (still testing)

Cheers

I know a lot of work has gone into bookx, however, does it now work with the latest version of Zen Cart?

I tried to install it on 156C with PHP 7.3 but it doesn't work: can you help me?
From "product_types" I can't find Product - BookX

It is looking like this plugin is not being updated as Zencart is being updated. Pitty I did like this