How to override search in Magento? - search

My user should be able to use the search box to search by some attribute (numeric) it works.
But I'd like to my customer to be able to search using separator.
Example:
search by : 12345678 = works great
search by : 12-34-56-78 = doesn't work
Which will the best way to override magento search to parse/rewrite/modify this behavior?
Thank you

If you actually want to override the default search (OOP override, that is) Refer to my earlier answer.
Otherwise #Anton's answer may be enough for you to use the default search which is always preferable.

Admin -> Catalog -> Search Terms -> Add New Search term.
Define variants of the searches you want to be redirected else where or found.

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Returning accented as well as normal result set via azure search filters

Does anyone know how to ensure we can return normal result as well as accented result set via the azure search filter. For e.g the below filter query in Azure search returns a name called unicorn when i check for record with name unicorn.
var result= searchServiceClient.Documents.SearchAsync<myDto>("*",new SearchParameters
{
SearchFields = new List<string> {"Name"},
Filter = "Name eq 'unicorn'"
});
This is all good but what i want is i want to write a filter such that it returns record named unicorn as well as record named únicorn (please note the first accented character) provided that both record exist.
This can be achieved when searching for such name via the search query using language or Standard ASCII folding search analyzer as mentioned in this link. What i am struggling to find out is how can we implement the same with azure filters?
Please let me know if anyone has got any solutions around this.
Filters are applied on the non-analyzed representation of the data, so I don’t think there’s any way to do any type of linguistic analysis on filters. One way to work around this is to manually create a field which only do lowercasing + asciifloding (no tokenization) and then search lucene queries that look like this:
"normal search query terms" AND customFilterColumn:"filtérValuèWithÄccents"
Basically the document would both need to match the search terms in any field AND also match the filter term in the “customFilterColumn”. This may not be sufficient for your needs, but at least you understand the art of the possible.
Using filters it won't work unless you specify in advance all the possibilities:
for example:
$filter=name eq 'unicorn' or name eq 'únicorn'
You'd better work with a different analyzer that will change accents to it's root form. As another possibility, you can try fuzzy search:
search=unicorn~&highlight=Name

drupal search for a specific content type along with its node type for comments

I have a content type called 'ticket'; its Node type for comments is 'interaction'.
I want a search interface which searches through only these two (ticket,interaction) content-types; and output the node-link/title
Also, even though matches are found in interactions, i should be displaying the respective ticket node-link/title. (since interaction are actually the comments for the ticket node)
Can anybody please help me achieve this?
Thanks!
You should try using the Views module in conjunction with the core search module. You can create a view, filter the content type to ticket, and then add an exposed "Search: Search Terms" filter to your view.
Of course you could also write a quick custom module and do your own query.

How to use custom attribute in default search in Magento?

We're migrating a custom site to Magento Community, and are discovering that the default search isn't that great.
Eg searching for "shirts" will not find a product called shirt.
I'm using Like, and would prefer to keep doing so.
Yes we could monitor internal searches and create synonyms for them, but we would prefer to be proactive.
The old site had a specific field for search keywords, which they would prefer to keep using.
Is there a way of either:
a. including an attribute by default in all searches? we would define a new attribute for all products
b. or using the existing meta keywords tag as a list of keywords we would like the internal search to use?
You can change weather or not an attribute is used for searches in the admin.
catalog -> attributes -> edit
then you can enable the attribute to be used in searches.
Try to change the Search Type from like to fulltext
Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog Search.

Alternative methods to search, without using FT Search

I am currently using the 'search in view results' option in the view control to provide the data set for my view (the reason for this is that the data set to be displayed is fairly complex depending on the user - and I was not able to accomplish this using vector filtering).
The problem I have with it, is that the search is a FT search, and that it does not let you search where a field is an exact match on a string, but rather it does a search where the field contains your string.
Does anyone know of an method where I can search the view for exact data?
Thanks in advance.
A
If your database is not too big you could use a database.search. It uses an #Formula to get the documents. It might be by a magnitude slower than FT Search
Take a look at this code http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=build-a-search-query I think it could help you do what you are looking for.
Based on what you want to do, a better option is to create a hidden view with the columns you need to match on. Then search on that view rather then an FTI search.

How to implement faceted search suggestion with number of relevant items in Solr?

Hi
I have a very specific need in my company for the system's search engine, and I can't seem to find a solution.
We have a SOLR index of items, all of them have the same fields, with one of the fields being "Type", (And ofcourse, "Title", "Text", and so on).
What I need is: I get an Item Type and a Query String, and I need to return a list of search suggestion with each also saying how meny items of the correct type will that suggested string return.
Something like, if the original string is "goo" I'll get
Goo 10
Google 52
Goolag 2
and so on.
now, How do I do it?
I don't want to re-query SOLR for each different suggestion, but if there is no other way, I just might.
Thanks in advance
you can try edge n-gram tokenization
http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/CDRG_ch05_5.5.6
You can try facets. Take a look at my more detailed description ('Autocompletion').
This was implemented at http://jetwick.com with Solr ... now using ElasticSearch but the Solr sources are still available and the idea is also the identical https://github.com/karussell/Jetwick
The SpellCheckComponent of Solr (that gives the suggestions) have extended results that can give the frequency of every suggestion in the index - http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent#Extended_Results.
However, the .Net component SolrNet, does not currently seem to support the extendedResults option: "All of the SpellCheckComponent parameters are supported, except for the extendedResults option" - http://code.google.com/p/solrnet/wiki/SpellChecking.
This is implemented using a facet field query with a Prefix set. You can test this using the xml handler like this:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?rows=0&facet=true&facet.field=type&f.type.prefix=goo

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