Stop Search From Splitting Multi-Word String

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  • 08/29/2016 at 8:58 am #388087
    Brittany Vacchiano
    Participant

    Hi Steven –

    First off, thank you for your helpful support for your plugin. All of your answers have helped me write the code that I needed to write to get your plugin working on my site!

    There is one question that I have about the Connections search. I noticed that you split multi-word strings upon searching. For instance if you search John Doe, your search actually splits the string and searches for the whole word: John Doe, John, Doe. Is there anyway that I can modify the plugin (using a hook or filter) to only search for the whole string & not the separated/split string with the whole string.

    The reason I ask is because users some of my users are complaining that they can’t find exactly what they’re looking for when they search, and not splitting the search string would solve that problem.

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    08/29/2016 at 3:52 pm #388113
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Brittany

    Sure, you could hook into the cn_search_terms filter. Here’s an example:

    add_filter( 'cn_search_terms', 'cn_exact_search_only' );

function cn_exact_search_only( $terms ) {
    return $terms[0];
}

    The $terms variable is an array where index 0 will be the whole string.

    Hope that helps!

    09/07/2016 at 11:56 am #389967
    Brittany Vacchiano
    Participant

    Hi Steven –

    I have implemented the filter you mentioned above & verified that the cn_search_terms filter is returning just the first entry in the terms array.

    However, when $atts['terms'] = $this->parse_search_terms (line 2319 of class.retrieve.php) is ran, an empty array is being returned and, thus, returned no search results.

    After much trial and error, I figured out that you need to return array($terms[0]) instead of $terms[0] in the filter function you listed above. That seemed to do the trick!

    You can mark this as resolved!

    09/07/2016 at 1:45 pm #390011
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Brittany

    Ahhh, yes, sorry about that! The filter needs to return an array, not a string which is what $terms[0] would be. To help other who may come across this thread and do the same, here the corrected code:

    add_filter( 'cn_search_terms', 'cn_exact_search_only' );

function cn_exact_search_only( $terms ) {
    return array( $terms[0] );
}
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