Search limit to 3 caracters

sylvain
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12 years 3 months ago #21492 by sylvain

Search limit to 3 caracters was created by sylvain

Hi all and happy new year,

The need is quite simple, my users have to be able to search simple words as CO2 etc... containing only 3 caracters.
I ve suppose to have removed the joomla limitation by updating limit defined here
/JOOMAL_DIR/administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php
but it seems that there is another limit in flexicontent search engine.
Could you help me to customize/remove this limit

Thks in advance

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iamrobert
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12 years 3 months ago #21561 by iamrobert

Replied by iamrobert on topic Search limit to 3 caracters

I am using the latest flexicontent. My solution is probably hacky but my site is in Chinese so needs to be 1 or 2 characters...

1. components > com_flexicontent > views > search

Line 168 - set minchars & maxchars - I changed to 1 & 15:

Code:

//limit searchword
$min = $params->get('minchars', 1);
$max = $params->get('maxchars', 15);

2. You can also do it in the .xml file - but it didn't seem to change for me:
components > com_flexicontent > views > search > default.xml

Line 26

Code:

<param name="minchars" type="text" default="1" label="Minimum length" description="Minimum character length the search words are allowed to have" />
<param name="maxchars" type="text" default="15" label="Maxmum length" description="Maximum characters length the search words are allowed to have" />

You may need to publish this hack to stop errors displaying:
www.flexicontent.org/phpbb/viewt ... ?f=29&t=10

Final Example:
www.hernia.com.tw/test/search?se ... wXLQNTkC6_

Regards,

Robert

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micker
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12 years 3 months ago #21566 by micker

Replied by micker on topic Search limit to 3 caracters

great tips thanks !

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