Searching Content
Date: 07-05-2007 12:46 Views: 1014
MonkeyCMS has three different searching options:
- Basic Quick Search
- FULLTEXT Quick Search (including Boolean) (MySQL 4.1 and above)
- Advanced Search
This is the most basic search option with MonkeyCMS - it checks the title, index title and content text for a substring and allows you to filter based on definition types. This is the default search engine for the software as it is compatible with all installations of MySQL and is not confusing to the user.
FULLTEXT Quick Search
The FULLTEXT search offers more flexibility and allows fuzzier searching ordered by relevance. To enable FULLTEXT Quick Search you should replace the link to search.php with fulltextsearch.php in the MenuBar fixed template and browsing to Site > Site Admin > Enable / Disable Fulltext Search in your admin control panel. You can make the search results even more useful by enabling the Boolean search (allows operators such as + and - to include and exclude terms from yours search) in your site settings.
The FULLTEXT Quick Search uses functionality that is only available in MySQL 4.1 and above. It was implemented in MonkeyCMS Release Candidate 1 (1.0.0-RC1)
Advanced Search
The Advanced Search is in addition to one of the above search engines. It enables the user to specify down to a content element, a term or value to search for through an intuitive interface. Results can be restricted by date. The Advanced Search is accessed via the 'Advanced Search' link in the search box.