Extended Searchoptions - community.ez.no

Sunday 11 April 2010 8:19:03 am - 4 replies

Modified on Sunday 11 April 2010 8:19:45 am by Moritz F

4 replies

Author	Message
Nicolas Pastorino	Monday 12 April 2010 2:38:52 am Hi Moritz and welcome to the eZ Community, Your description sounds like a sort of advanced search, and yes, you can achieve this type of things with eZ Find, very easily. While your description is short for a whole project, you may want to give us some more insight so that we can elaborate! Cheers and talk soon, -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye
Moritz F	Monday 12 April 2010 9:45:17 am Hey Nicolas, thanks for your fast reply. I just wanted to outline the main technical aspects of the project to keep the answer simple. I'm planning to have a database where i add some project data (entries of tours). Therefore I need some additional tables that include the linked data such as the hotels/ the type of tour/ the countrys... Thats kind of the backend of the project. In the frontend i would like to have this advanced search. In this search there are some fields to choose like the country/type of tour. I think this type of search does only include some fields and options of the database and should not be something like a free search. The german site "reise.de" is one example of such kind of search form. I hope this additional information can help you to rate the practicability in combination with eZ.
Nicolas Pastorino	Tuesday 13 April 2010 3:34:44 am Hi Moritz, If i understand correctly it is all about integrating third-party data. Given the need for a proper search on the latter, one working recipe can be the following : Integrate your external data in the content engine through a custom datatype ( mind the volume though, if you have 2.5M rows of external data, rethink this :) ). This helps sticking to eZ standards, allows for native usage of the presentation layers and modules, usually a development speed boost. More on this : http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/creating-datatypes-in-ez-publish-4 Customise your data's interface with the search engine (eZ Find/Solr) by extending your datataype's search-related behaviour, using eZ Find's 'subattribute' feature. Here is a good starter for understanding it : http://share.ez.no/forums/extensions/ez-find/add-sub-attributes-to-a-custom-solr-field-mapping Use eZ Find's search API ( from the template language or PHP directly ) to build the search GUI. More on the template API (reflecting the PHP api directly) : http://ez.no/doc/extensions/ez_find/2_2/customization/template_fetch_functions Hope this helps a bit! Cheers, -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye
Moritz F	Friday 16 April 2010 10:32:20 am Hey, thank you for your help and your detailed description. I will try the solutions and report my status in this thread. Moritz

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