[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:

{strip}

Add the following before:

{assign var="title" value=$link.TITLE}
{assign var="desc" value=$link.DESCRIPTION}
{php}
if ($this->get_template_vars('search') and $this->get_template_vars('search') != ".") {
    $title_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('search'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('search') . "</b>", $this->get_template_vars('title'));
    $this->assign('title_highlighted', $title_highlighted);
    $desc_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('search'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('search') . "</b>", $this->get_template_vars('desc'));
    $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $desc_highlighted);
}
else {
    $this->assign('title_highlighted', $this->get_template_vars('title'));
    $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $this->get_template_vars('desc'));
}
{/php}

Step 2
Find:

{$link.TITLE}

Replace with:

{$title_highlighted}

Step 3
Find:

{$link.DESCRIPTION}

Replace with:

{$desc_highlighted}

[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?

[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.

$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Search Results'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => _L('Search Results for: ').$_REQUEST['q']);

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:

http://www.compact-hosting.co.uk/php/

Can you post your link.tpl.

[angeljs]

Sure, thanks:

{assign var="term" value=$category.DESCRIPTION} 
{assign var="title" value=$link.TITLE} 
{assign var="desc" value=$link.DESCRIPTION} 
{php} 
if ($this->get_template_vars('term')) { 
   $title_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('term'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('term') . "[/b]", $this->get_template_vars('title')); 
   $this->assign('title_highlighted', $title_highlighted); 
   $desc_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('term'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('term') . "[/b]", $this->get_template_vars('desc')); 
   $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $desc_highlighted); 
} 
else { 
   $this->assign('title_highlighted', $this->get_template_vars('title')); 
   $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $this->get_template_vars('desc')); 
} 
{/php} 

{strip}
<table><tr>
{* show page rank *}
{if $smarty.const.SHOW_PAGERANK}
	<td>
	<p style="clear: both">{include file="pagerank.tpl" pr=$link.PAGERANK}
	</td>
{/if}

<td>
<a id="{$link.ID}" href="{$link.URL}"
{* nofollow *}
{if $link.NOFOLLOW or ($link.RECPR_VALID eq 0 and 
	($smarty.const.RECPR_NOFOLLOW eq 2 or 
	($smarty.const.RECPR_NOFOLLOW eq 1 and $link.RECPR_REQUIRED eq 1)))
    } rel="nofollow"
{/if}{if $smarty.const.ENABLE_BLANK} target="_BLANK"{/if}{if $smarty.const.ENABLE_DISPLAYURL} onMouseOver="self.status='{if $link.DISPLAYURL ne ''}{$link.DISPLAYURL}{else}{$link.URL}{/if}'; return true" onMouseOut="self.status=''; return true"{/if}>

{$title_highlighted}</a> <span class="url">- {if $smarty.const.ENABLE_DISPLAYURL and $link.DISPLAYURL ne ''}{$link.DISPLAYURL}{else}{$link.URL}{/if}</span>



{$desc_highlighted}
{if $link.RATE_ENABLED eq 1}
<span class="url">(Hits:{$link.HITS} Rating:{if $link.RATE eq '10.00'}[img]images/20.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE eq '0.00'}[img]images/0.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE eq ''}[img]images/0.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '0.50'}[img]images/1.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '1.00'}[img]images/2.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '1.50'}[img]images/3.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '2.00'}[img]images/4.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '2.50'}[img]images/5.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '3.00'}[img]images/6.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '3.50'}[img]images/7.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '4.00'}[img]images/8.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '4.50'}[img]images/9.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '5.00'}[img]images/10.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '5.50'}[img]images/11.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '6.00'}[img]images/12.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '6.50'}[img]images/13.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '7.00'}[img]images/14.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '7.50'}[img]images/15.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '8.00'}[img]images/16.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '8.50'}[img]images/17.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '9.00'}[img]images/18.gif[/img] 
{elseif $link.RATE le '9.50'}[img]images/19.gif[/img] 
{else}[img]images/20.gif[/img] 
{/if} 
  Votes:{$link.RATE_COUNT}) <a href=
	"{$smarty.const.DOC_ROOT}/rate.php?id={$link.ID}"><font size=1>Rate</a></span>{/if} | <font size=1>Report | <font size=1>Refer</p>


</p>
</td>
</tr></table>
{/strip}

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

$this->get_template_vars('term')

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:

$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Search Results'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => _L('Search results for: ').$_REQUEST['q']);

to:

$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Search Results'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => $_REQUEST['q']);

[m_leefs]

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

replace

if ($this->get_template_vars('term')) {
   $title_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('term'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('term') . "</b>", $this->get_template_vars('title'));
   $this->assign('title_highlighted', $title_highlighted);
   $desc_highlighted = eregi_replace($this->get_template_vars('term'), "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>". $this->get_template_vars('term') . "</b>", $this->get_template_vars('desc'));
   $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $desc_highlighted);
}

with

if ($this->get_template_vars('term')) {
   $term_array = explode(" ", $this->get_template_vars('term'));
   $title_highlighted = $this->get_template_vars('title');
   $desc_highlighted = $this->get_template_vars('desc');
   for ($i =0; $i<count($term_array); $i++){
       $title_highlighted = eregi_replace($term_array[$i], "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>".$term_array[$i]."[/b]", $title_highlighted);
       $this->assign('title_highlighted', $title_highlighted);
       $desc_highlighted = eregi_replace($term_array[$i], "<b style='background-color: red; color: #FFFFFF;'>".$term_array[$i]. "[/b]", $desc_highlighted);
       $this->assign('desc_highlighted', $desc_highlighted);
   }
}

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 www.AllDotNet.com - Don't see any differences.

Thanks

[Neticus]

Originally Posted by John D

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

Try a search on www.AllDotNet.com - Don't see any differences.

Thanks

Have you tried this yet?:
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/foru...hp?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 look what's happened:
http://www.shop4bizness.com/mall/index.php?q=art