What Terms Does The Blog Search

dosa · Mar 29th 2020

I realized I don't know exactly what Perch is scrubbing when searching our blog. Is it titles, content, can that be changed?

hus_hmd · Mar 31st 2020

The Perch Blog app's search handler searches the post title (from the postTitle field), description (from the postDescHTML field) and tags.

Quote from dosa

can that be changed?

No, but you can write your own search handler.

dosa · Mar 31st 2020

Ah great to know. Thank you thank you thank you for all your help hus_hmd

For anyone else looking for the final code for all this, here's how to create your blog search:

Your master page calls the search content, Blog specific, sorted, using a template:

PHP

That template is search-result.html:

Code

<perch:before>
<div class="header-text">
<perch:search id="total" /> You searched for "<perch:search id="search_key" />"
</div>
<div class="posts">
</perch:before>
<perch:if id="result_source" value="PerchBlog">
<perch:layout path="blog_search_result" url="<perch:search id="result_url" />">
</perch:if>
<perch:after>
</div>
<perch:if exists="paging">
<div class="pagination"><perch:if exists="not_first_page">
<a href="<perch:search id="prev_url" encode="false" />">Prev</a>
</perch:if><span>Page <perch:search id="current_page" /> of <perch:search id="number_of_pages" /></span><perch:if exists="not_last_page">
<a href="<perch:search id="next_url" encode="false" />">Next</a>
</perch:if></div>
</perch:if>
</perch:after>
<perch:noresults>
<perch:if exists="search_key">
<h2>Search results for “<perch:search id="search_key" />”</h2>
<perch:else />
<h1>No Results</h1>
</perch:if>
<perch:if exists="search_key">
<p>Sorry, there are no results for “<perch:search id="search_key" />”.</p>
</perch:if>
</perch:noresults>

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Now the key to connecting everything is in the Layout referenced, blog_search_result.php:

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Which references this last template, post_search_result.html:

Code

<article><a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />"><img src="<perch:blog id="image" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />"></a>
<div class="top"> <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" class="title"><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></a>
<perch:if exists="subtitle"><p><perch:blog id="subtitle" striptags="true" /></p></perch:if>
<div class="author">
<perch:if exists="author_image" /><div class="profile"> <img src="<perch:blog id="author_image">"> </div></perch:if>
<div class="content">
<div class="date"><perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" time="true" format="M j, Y" /> <span class="name">by <a href="/about/newsroom/authors/<perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" urlify />-<perch:blog id="authorFamilyName" type="hidden" urlify />"><perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" /> <perch:blog id="authorFamilyName" /></a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</article>

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Note the "urlify" links which reuse existing name of the author to make the slug link.