[Highlight Search Terms] Mod

[VSDan]

The following mod will highlight terms in the search results page. As easy as 1-2-3:

Step 1
Open templates/link.tpl:

Find:

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Add the following before:

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Step 2
Find:

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Replace with:

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Step 3
Find:

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Replace with:

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[UPDATE:] change 'term' to 'search' in first code block to use this mod for phpLD 3.04+


Cheers,

Dan
Virtual Solutions
monster-submit.com

[Sharr76]

Can we see this working? :D

[VSDan]

Sure can: go to the following URL, and enter webmaster as search term:

http://www.monster-submit.com/directory/


Cheers,

Dan
Virtual Solutions
monster-submit.com

[Neticus]

Thanks for a great mod everything works as instructed. Yet I seem to be having the problem of words being over-highlighted.
For instance a search for 'hosting' finds 'Linux hosting' - hosting will be highlighted but the space before it will also be highlighted along with the word. This over-highlighting poses problems as the process dosen't seem to recognise 'hosting' if 'linuxhosting' is placed together as one word.

I don't understand maybe its me any help much appreciated, thanks
Neticus

[VSDan]

Hi Neticus:

I don't have that problem myself. Can you provide URL to your directory so I can check.

[Neticus]

Hi VSDan, have figured it out as suspected it was a problem from my side. Sorry my bad!

What it was was I had removed 'Search Results for: ' in the following code in index.php, Yet had also left a space inbetween the commas when I did so, thus ' ' when it should have been '' . That space was also being processed as part of the search hence the over-highlighting effect.

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Although I have also now discovered that the highlight dosen't work even when the full 'Search Results for: ' text is in place. For me the highlight only works when that field is blank and left as '' I don't know why, its like the highlight code is taking the text in DESCRIPTION field as part of the search.

So thats the downlow!

Again thanks for the reply.
Cheers Neticus.

[angeljs]

I can't seem to get this working...I've added the code as supplied, but the search terms won't highlight
:(

[angeljs]

Any idea what the problem could be? :?:

[VSDan]

Is this where it is being used:

/php/

Can you post your link.tpl.

[angeljs]

Sure, thanks:

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Yes, the site below is where I have it.

[VSDan]

This could take some debugging. Can you send me your FTP access information? If so, then you can send c/o support at monster-submit dot com

[m_leefs]

Along with angeljs I also added the code as supplied, but the search terms won't highlight. I also just installed phpLD and everything else seems to work great. I tried to do some debugging, but as a newby without too much php experience I'm trying my best. I did find that the following

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contains "Search results for: term" so the code given will only highlight text that contains the following:

Search results for: term

But will not highlight just "term". The search though pulls out all links with "term" in them. So in a list I have the following highlights:

This is a link with the word term, which won't highlight, but Search results for: term will highlight. Weird huh.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

[VSDan]

Can you post your index.php and main.tpl files.

[VSDan]

I think I see the problem (should have mentioned in my instructions). In index.php, change:

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to:

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[m_leefs]

Thanks VSDan for the fix! I also added some extras in order to highlight multiple word searches (seperated by spaces).

replace
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with
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Doing this I noticed a bug in the search function when searching multiple words. The search is dependent on the order of the words, however when searching multiple words one may not want that. Example: Searching "great site" will find links like "This is a great site", but not "This site is great". Any insight anybody could give would be great. Thanks.

[John D]

Hey,
This doesn't seem to highlight it for me..

Try a search on All Dot Net - Don't see any differences.

Thanks :)

[Neticus]

Have you tried this yet?:
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9284#9284

[John D]

Thanks a lot :)

There were that many replies with different fixes I read it a few times but still missed a lot ;)

[LyndaLAX]

thanks,
Lynda

[angeljs]

Oh, dear, now something else has happened.

[VSDan]

I cannot believe no one, including myself, spotted this - although we obviously made the change when we implemented. Change all incidences of [/b] to </b>.

[angeljs]

That's definately better, thanks. :) I'm pleased to have finally got this working. Great mod!

[arale]

I have problem. I add script below to link.tpl
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when search, its show result like this:
<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>test</b>

How to fix? I want use css, class="...", how to do it?

[VSDan]

<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>test</b> is CSS. You can change (there are two) to:

<b class="somestyle">test</b>

[arale]

not working! I change to
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when run. get error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in htdocs\phpLD\temp\templates\en^%%58^587^587A07D9%% link.tpl.php on line 10

its version 3.0.6. Please help...

[VSDan]

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[/LEFT]

[arale]

its not work with me :(
I always get result <b class='highlight'>test</b> on result page

[VSDan]

Sorry, but I do not follow. Regardless of search term entered, only 'test' is highlighted?

[arale]

its not highlight, just show result like this picture:

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I want its bold only

[VSDan]

Hi:

Can you post your link.tpl template file.

[arale]

This is it:
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[VSDan]

Hi:

1. Change:

{$title_highlighted|escape}

to:

{$title_highlighted}

2. Change:

{$desc_highlighted|escape}

to:

{$desc_highlighted}

[arale]

yah, its work for normal links only. Featured links not show this effect :S

[VSDan]

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Do you have a separate template file for featured links (e.g., featured_link.tpl)? If so, then you must do same thing in that template file as well.

[shadav]

i can't get it to work here's what's in my link.tpl search works, but no highlights Content visible to registered users only.

[VSDan]

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Try revised code here:

http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4480&postcount=1

[shadav]

still not working i even reinstalled a new link.tpl file and inserted the code...could it because i'm using the phpLD2 version?

[genious]

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the keyword for search carrying the seach value is "q" not term for v2.xx.

its working on 3.xx version,
i guess need more time to figure out for 2.xxx

cheers,

[Trapatoni]

I noticed that if you search for term "james bond" (with lowercase), the highlighted words in the search results are shown with lowercase first letters. And if you search for "James Bond" then the highlighted words are shown with capital first letters. Any idea how to avoid this, so that when you search for a term, the highlighted words from the results will stay with their original capitalization?

[mgrohan]

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Any success on getting a highlighted search term mod working in 2.xxx. Had a try but no success.