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[dpk]

this sounds great--can it possibly search directories and files outside the joomla installation and database? (e.g., a legacy site layered below a joomla installation?)

and will it work with mambo?

[V-man]

Doesn't work with mambo now. If there is significant interest, we can make that happen.

This component will search any published mambot. If you want it to search directories, you'll need to convince a mambot to do that for you. Perhaps a component to scan a directory and log the data into the DB, which is then easily searchable?

[dpk]

I am moderately interested in the search for a mambo site. For the other issue--old movable type pages outside of a joomla installation (old issues in a local Milwaukee newspaper)--it would be very good if it could handle that. My current workaround is a google search built into a static page.

Another question--the built in joomla search can't handle keywords over 20 characters in length. Your advanced search does better, right?

[V-man]

By interest, I mean a number of mambo users posting on this board

we have not modified the character length, but that's an easy one. Let me take a peak.

[zigzag]

It's just 2 lines of code, open up search_adv.html.php and look for:

<input type="text" name="searchword" id="search_searchword" size="30" maxlength="20" value="<?php echo stripslashes($searchword);?>" class="inputbox" />

and change maxlength="20" to whatever limit you want (not too high though!)

then open up search_adv.php and look for:

// limit searchword to 20 characters
   if ( strlen( $searchword ) > 20 ) {
      $searchword    = substr( $searchword, 0, 19 );
      $restriction    = 1;
   }

and change the 20 and the 19 to whatever limit you chose - e.g. if you chose to up the limit from 20 to 60 you would change the value 20 to 60 and the value 19 to 59.

[vinsent_paine]

Hi,
i`ve a very needed question - how to make in advanced search to search in one Section not in all sections but just in one of them? Is it posible?

Great thanks

[V-man]

There is a search mambot that does this, content search extended.

[garyglow]

Well if there was ever a need for a Mambo extension, I sure could use it.  I bought Advanced Search thinking I would be able to use it with Mambo and unfortunately I can't.  I have been able to tweak other Joomla extensions to work on Mambo but not this one.


Anyone have any advice?

[giankosr]

There is a search mambot that does this, content search extended.

I want exactly this mambot but for categories. I want to specify certain categories to search in.

Do you know if i can find such a mambot?

thank you.

[MRJIT]

I wouldnt have thought it would be too difficult to change that bot to do the job

it's probably just a caseof changing all references to #__sections to #__categories

[giankosr]

Some times you cant see the simple things...

Thank you. I wil take a look for this solution.