Hi guys, I'm developing something like online shop with different products, and I wonder if someone of you ever needed to hide some search results under different conditions? In this particular case, I have products with expiration date and I want to hide the expired products from the search engine. I'm using the integrated October CMS Form Widget - Datepicker for setting the date in the backend.

Do someone know what would be the best solution for this case? Thanks!

Last updated 8 years ago

If you are building a custom plugin you can add a results provider event handler or class as documented here: https://github.com/OFFLINE-GmbH/oc-site-search-plugin/#example-to-search-for-custom-documents

Simply filter the products with

->where('expires_at', '>', now())->orWhereNull('expires_at');

Yes, I'm using exactly the same event handler for my custom plugins. So...I tried it, but maybe not in the right way. The query throws all products at once. What am I doing wrong?

// Search your plugin's contents
$product = Models\Product::->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                ->orWhereNull('product_validation')
                ->orWhere('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%")
                ->get();

Last updated 8 years ago

Try this

$product = Models\Product::where(function($q) {
                     $q->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                       ->orWhereNull('product_validation');
                 })->where(function($q) {
                     $q->where('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                       ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                       ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%");
                 })
                ->get();

Last updated 8 years ago

Mmm I'm getting an error: Undefined variable: query

\Event::listen('offline.sitesearch.query', function ($query) {

        // Search your plugin's contents
        $product = Models\Product::where(function($q) {
                 $q->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                   ->orWhereNull('product_validation');
             })->where(function($q) {
                 $q->where('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                   ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                   ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%");
             })
            ->get();

}

If it's helpful, I can show you the whole boot function code here:

public function boot()
{
    \Event::listen('offline.sitesearch.query', function ($query) {

        // Search your plugin's contents
        $product = Models\Product::where(function($q) {
                 $q->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                   ->orWhereNull('product_validation');
             })->where(function($q) {
                 $q->where('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                   ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                   ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%");
             })
            ->get();

        // Now build a results array
        $productResults = $product->map(function ($item) use ($query) {

            // If the query is found in the title, set a relevance of 2
            $relevance = mb_stripos($item->title, $query) !== false ? 2 : 1;

            if($item->product_img)
            {
                return [
                    'title'     => $item->product_name,
                    'text'      => $item->product_validation,
                    'url'       => '/product/' . $item->product_slug,
                    'thumb'     => $item->product_img, // Instance of System\Models\File
                    'relevance' => $relevance // higher relevance results in a higher
                                               // position in the results listing
                    // 'meta' => 'data',       // optional, any other information you want
                                               // to associate with this result
                    // 'model' => $item,       // optional, pass along the original model
                ];
            } else {
                return [
                    'title'     => $item->product_name,
                    'text'      => $item->product_validation,
                    'url'       => '/product/' . $item->product_slug,
                    'relevance' => $relevance // higher relevance results in a higher
                                               // position in the results listing
                    // 'meta' => 'data',       // optional, any other information you want
                                               // to associate with this result
                    // 'model' => $item,       // optional, pass along the original model
                ];
            }
        });

        return [
            'provider' => '', // The badge to display for this result
            'results'  => $productResults,
        ];
    });

Yes, you have to use your query variable:

$product = Models\Product::where(function($q) {
                     $q->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                       ->orWhereNull('product_validation');
                 })->where(function($q) use ($query) {  // This is important.
                     $q->where('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                       ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                       ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%");
                 })
                ->get();

OFFLINE said:

Yes, you have to use your query variable:

$product = Models\Product::where(function($q) {
                    $q->where('product_validation', '>', now())
                      ->orWhereNull('product_validation');
                })->where(function($q) use ($query) {  // This is important.
                    $q->where('product_name', 'like', "%${query}%")
                      ->orWhere('product_tags', 'like', "%${query}%")
                      ->orWhere('product_description', 'like', "%${query}%");
                })
               ->get();

Maaaan, thank you!!! It works like charm!

I'm just not so good in php and...you see. Big thanks again! Cheers!

Last updated 8 years ago