so I am starting a website for finding products and I was wondering is it possible to make a search where for example your looking to buy a laptop, and lets say and theres a check box that says "Intel CPU" and "AMD CPU" and once you mark all the specs you want it will give you search results on a specific laptop with those specs! I apologize for my question being so long, But is it possible and how do I approach doing it?
Thanks,
Reese.
Well, You could always have an ajax request sent whenever user clicks the check box and return the list from php (which will connect to the database) and update the list. A lot of websites use this feature.
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On the website I run we have a single search field where you can enter a name or profession. When you search you are served with a page full of results that come from 3 seperate sources.
Once you click on one field e.g. John Do, you will be taken to his page. On that page we have a back to search, but it goes to a blank screen.
I want to go back to the actual search results so the person doesn't have to do it all again, but I'm not sure where to start. Any suggestions?
That's a tricky situation.
There can be many solutions for this issue but I'll will name some of them.
Activate the cache of the pages (Quick trick, no suitable for websites that relies on users (*login)), you can go back and your form will be the same with the results without any issue.
Manage the load of the page of Jhon Do as a ajax load and #hashtag references, you don't reload the page but you just manage the states of the HTML. (Can be done with JS frameworks or React)
Depends on which platform are you working try to manage the variable of the search with this concept post-redirect-get
Hope that is helps!
Cheers.
I am a student and in the school website, what I want to do is that I want to busy wait on the certain URL and check if the class i want to register for is open or not. I was wondering if there was a way to constantly check on the website(busy waiting or otherwise) to see if the class is open or not. There is a table Rem where it shows the number of places remaining in the User Interface.
Also what language would you use to solve this problem?
Yes you can. but for that you will probably need to create a script that fetches the value of data from that table.
So something like web scraping should work.
I would definately use php for this stuff.
Google web scraping and you can code the script.
I am not sure if this is the exact thing that will help you, but what you need to do is something similar - See Here
I'd like to get a better idea of what people are searching for when they're using our website.
Just curious, what's the best way to monitor what's being entered into the search field in Plone 4? I saw this product — http://plone.org/products/ifsearchmonitor — but it's an old one. Has anyone used it with Plone 4 or know of something similar?
Okay I don't know why it took me so long to realize this, but it's built into Google Analytics. Here are instructions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en
And the search query parameters I used for Plone are: ##search, SearchableText, advanced_search
using google analytic's site search won't track users using the livesearch (without pressing enter and submit to the ##search view.
for awstats i use this extra section to track both:
# updated version for plone 4.3
# /livesearch_reply?q=testsuche
# /##search?SearchableText=testsuche
# /##updated_search?SearchableText=testsuche
# livesearches shown as q=, normal searches with just the phrase
ExtraSectionName1="Plone Suchabfragen"
ExtraSectionCodeFilter1="200 304"
ExtraSectionCondition1="URL,\/##search||URL,\/search||URL,\/##updated_search||URL,\/livesearch_reply"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle1="Search:"
#ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1="QUERY_STRING,SearchableText=([^&]+)||QUERY_STRING,q=([^&]+)"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1="QUERY_STRING,SearchableText=([^&]+)||QUERY_STRING,(q=[^&]+)"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnFormat1="%s"
ExtraSectionStatTypes1=PL
ExtraSectionAddAverageRow1=0
ExtraSectionAddSumRow1=1
MaxNbOfExtra1=100
MinHitExtra1=1
if you want to track the livesearch in google analytics, you'll need to use event tracking: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events
Suppose I have a huge set of noisy phrases. For each one of them, I want to check if it is defined by some resources by using the google define feature. Once I type "define my_phrase" to the google search box, if the retrieved results contain the definition panel (e.g. https://www.google.com/#q=define+home+cooking), I put it into my phrase pool.
I'm wondering is this possible to do this task in a batch so that I don't have to type each of the phrase manually one by one? It would be great if this could be achieved from a unix terminal but windows is also welcome!
I heard of google-app-engine but I only have a rough idea and not sure if it could help.
Thanks!
as starting point, you may try and play with the Google Custom search following API reference - Xml results
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results?hl=en&csw=1#XML_Results
Be aware of:
google TOS for this service
quantity courtesy limit
Sorry, this is a bad question. I don't even know what the title should be. I'm a total noob at making websites so this might be easy to find but I just don't know the terminology to search for. I cannot find anything about how to do this...
What I want to do is have something like references/variables that I can use in a block of text and it will automatically get replaced with whatever value should be there. Best way I can think of to describe it would be if I was using the site as a design doc for a game or something, I would be able to type in [Title] or something similar on any page and when it loads that text would be replaced with whatever my Title is. That way If I ever change titles, names, classes, races, places, items, etc... they would only have to be changed in 1 place and the change would be reflected everywhere.
I notice if I add a link to a page it will automatically use the Title of that page as the text of the link. That is almost exactly what I want. Except when I change the Title of the other page the text of the link remains as the original text. It doesn't get updated to the new Title and that is not at all what I want.
Also, I want to do this in Google Sites and as simply as possible. I don't really want to use a database. I was hoping Google Sites would have some kind of funcionality for this.
I don't believe this is possible (on Google Sites) and likely you need to consider a hosted solution.
Quoting the answer from this relevant post:
You should consider hosting your solution using Google's App Engine
instead of Google Sites. You can set it up so it uses PHP (see link
below), you can configure it to use your domain name and you get
enough CPU, disk and bandwidth allowance to serve around five million
page views for free each month, if you are serving more than that,
their prices are extremely competitive.
Google App Engine:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html How
to setup PHP using Google App Engine: http://blog.caucho.com/?p=187
Also I'm not sure how your PHP skills are but if you're unfamiliar with it then this should help to get you started.