Search only matches blog titles

Juan · Jan 30th 2019

I'm setting up a search page and I only get results when searching words of the post titles. If I try looking for something written in other field the search outputs no results. Am I doing something wrong?

Diegnostics below

PHP

Perch: 3.1.2, PHP: 7.2.1, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: b396954eeb2d1d9ed7902b8bae237b287f21ad9e $, with PDO
Server OS: Darwin, apache2handler
Installed apps: content (3.1.2), assets (3.1.2), categories (3.1.2), perch_blog (5.6.1)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = [ 'perch_blog', ];
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /Users/Juan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/condimen/condimen projects/lib.condimen.com/perch
PERCH_CORE: /Users/Juan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/condimen/condimen projects/lib.condimen.com/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /Users/Juan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/condimen/condimen projects/lib.condimen.com/perch/resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 32M, Max POST 64M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 32M
F1: 3b606135b33e6a102526838f4152a807
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: condimen.local:5757
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /Users/Juan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/condimen/condimen projects/lib.condimen.com
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

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drewm · Jan 31st 2019

The search handler for Blog matches against the title, the main post body field and the tags. Are you trying to search something else?

Keep in mind this is MySQL full text search, so it will need a reasonable number of posts and a query that returns matches in less than 50% of the content before it'll return useful results.

Juan · Feb 1st 2019

Thank you Drew! My posts are multi-language, so I need to search in lots of places

This is the post template

Code

<div class='[ c-card <perch:if id="singlePost" value="yes" match="neq"><!--*
*-->c-card--multiple c-card--<perch:blog id="cardSize" type="select" label="Card size" options="Regular|regular, Medium|medium, Large|large" order="6" /> ] o-list-inline__item<!--*
*--><perch:else>c-card--single c-card--<perch:blog id="cardSize" type="select" label="Card size" /> ]</perch:if>
[ c-family <perch:categories id="mainCardFamily" set="family" label="Main family" required="true" max="1" order="4"> c-family--<perch:category id="catSlug" /> </perch:categories>] <!--*
*-->[ c-type <perch:categories id="cardType" set="type" label="Card type" required="true" max="1" order="3">c-type--<perch:category id="catSlug" /> </perch:categories>]'>
<perch:categories id="cardFamily" set="family" label="Related families" order="5"></perch:categories>
<div class="c-card__info">
<a class="u-no-link" href="/card?id=<perch:blog id="postID" type="hidden" />">
<h2 class="c-card__title">
<perch:if id="lang" value="es">
<perch:blog id="postTitle_es" type="text" label="Title (es)" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" />
<perch:else>
<perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title (en)" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" />
</perch:if>
</h2>
</a>
<perch:if exists="postSubTitle">
<p class="c-card__subtitle">
<perch:if id="lang" value="es">
<perch:blog id="postSubTitle_es" type="text" label="Subtitle (es)" size="xl autowidth" order="2" />
<perch:else>
<perch:blog id="postSubTitle" type="text" label="Subtitle (en)" size="xl autowidth" order="2" />
</perch:if>
</p>
</perch:if>
<div class="c-card__types">
<perch:categories id="cardType" set="type" label="Card type" required="true" max="1">
<svg viewBox="0 0 1 1" class="c-card__icon">
<use xlink:href="#icon-<perch:category id="catSlug" />"></use>
</svg>
</perch:categories>
</div>
</div>
<perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="Date" time="true" format="Y-m-d H:i:s" divider-before="Publishing" order="6" suppress="true" />
<perch:blog id="excerpt" type="textarea" label="Excerpt (en)" markdown="true" suppress="true" size="s" order="7" />
<perch:blog id="excerpt_es" type="textarea" label="Excerpt (es)" markdown="true" suppress="true" size="s" order="7" />
<perch:template path="content/global_blocks.html" rescope="parent" />
<perch:blog id="isFeatured" type="checkbox" label="Featured in home page" suppress="true" />
<perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" suppress="true" />
<perch:blog id="authorFamilyName" type="hidden" suppress="true" />
</div>
<perch:after>
<perch:template path="pagination/paging-links.html" rescope="parent">
</perch:after>

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And the global_blocks.html template

Code

<perch:blocks order="50" notes-before="Use this section if you need to elaborate extended content" divider-before="Content">
<perch:block type="image" label="Image">
<perch:template path="content/image.html" rescope="parent" />
</perch:block>
<perch:block type="text" label="Text">
<perch:if id="lang" value="es">
<perch:content id="desc_es" type="textarea" label="Content (es)" required="true" editor="markitup" markdown html />
<perch:else>
<perch:content id="desc" type="textarea" label="Content (en)" required="true" editor="markitup" markdown html />
</perch:if>
</perch:block>
<perch:block type="analysis" label="Analysis table">
<perch:template path="content/analysis.html" rescope="parent" />
</perch:block>
<perch:block type="element" label="Element">
<perch:repeater>
<perch:before>
<div class="c-element-list">
</perch:before>
<div class="c-element" style='color:<perch:content id="element_color" type="color" label="Colour" default="#605e5e" order="5" />'>
<p class="c-element__atomic-number c-element__info"><perch:content id="atomic_number" type="text" format="#:0" label="Atomic number" order="6" /></p>
<p class="c-element__symbol"><perch:content id="symbol" label="Symbol" type="text" order="1" /></p>
<perch:if id="lang" value="es">
<p class="c-element__name c-element__info"><perch:content id="name_es" label="Name (es)" type="text" format="LC" order="3" /></p>
<perch:else>
<p class="c-element__name c-element__info"><perch:content id="name" label="Name (en)" type="text" format="LC" order="2" /></p>
</perch:if>
<p class="c-element__atomic-weight c-element__info"><perch:content id="atomic_weight" type="text" label="Atomic weight" order="7" /></p>
</div>
<perch:after>
</div>
</perch:after>
</perch:repeater>
</perch:block>
<perch:template path="content/card_links.html" rescope="parent" />
</perch:blocks>

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Is there a way the search can match against the content in all those fields?

drewm · Feb 1st 2019

The internal search won’t search those fields, no.

Juan · Feb 6th 2019

I see. Is there a way to search those fields via an add on or similar?

drewm · Feb 6th 2019

Yes, you’d be able to do it with an add-on.

Juan · Feb 7th 2019

Ok. Thanks Drew!

drewm Jan 31st 2019