Topic: search function needs improvement

[agamum]

Hi!

After testing some download managers for WordPress, I truly believe that this plugin is the best for this.

But I think that the search function is practically useless

Because it only works if you search by ONE word, if you put two or more words it doesnt returns anything...

I think that having only one word to get results from a search is pretty useless, if you cant specify anything but a word... you can get a lot of results that you dont want to have.

It would be nice to see this improvement in the upcoming 1.31 release... 

ps. by the way... it would be even nicer to have the option to integrate the wordpress global search to search in the downloads manager tables...

[agamum]

ok... too much sun in the street, better to be fresh in house, so after some researching I found a solution for this 

1.:

I have created a FULLTEXT index for file_name and file_des fields using

ALTER TABLE wp_downloads ADD FULLTEXT(file_name, file_des);

2.:

Replaced the line 444 in wp-downloadmanager.php

$search_sql = " AND (file_name LIKE('%$search_word%') OR file_des LIKE ('%$search_word%'))";

With this other:

$search_sql = " AND (MATCH(file_name, file_des) AGAINST ('%$search_word%'))";

So, now, I can use natural search like in search engines and use phrases like "plugin to manage downloads" for searching in the downloads database 

If you like to include in this modification in the next version, it will be ok.

And improving it would be a good idea too, because sometimes the results seems not to be too much accurated.

[GaMerZ]

it is meant to be a basic search function. I can't use full text as there are people who are still on MYSQL 4. If I do, then people will have the same issue as http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2008/06/09/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode/ when I decided to move to PHP5.

I will improved on it without using full text.

[agamum]

I will improved on it without using full text.

I promise to make a donation when you do it 

[GaMerZ]

thanks =D it is not that difficult. I am just lazy =p You can check out the search that I did for my site, http://lesterchan.net/site/search/

[agamum]

Wow! that's an amazing search engine! 

Maybe the downloads manager doesnt need a so wonderful one (anyway, it will be great to have it integrated), but the actual one is useless because nobody search using only one word. And if you want to search a file in a database that stores 100 files... is a pain doing it looking at each page...

I hope that my promise of doing some donation (at least $15 I promise!) can help you to defeat that laziness

[GaMerZ]

Yea i get what you mean by the one word =D. Think I will split the search term by space and search using individual words.

[agamum]

Hi Lester! 

I just want to thank you for the improvement in the search function and let you know that I made a $15 donation (from an email of the same domain that I use for this forum) just right now in gratitude for it 

[GaMerZ]

OOO thanks Samuel =D

[Ttech]

Glad it works.

[Chris Brennan]

Hi,

At the risk of looking like a fool can somebody tell me where the search function actually is? And how to integrate it into a page? I've looked but I can't find any instructions... Sorry if this is so obvious that only an idiot would miss it but it's Monday morning and I've not had any coffee yet!

This is a fantastic plug in BTW really perfect for me.

Ta -

[GaMerZ]

The search function is built into the downloads page. Instruction is in the readme.html under Usage Tab

[Chris Brennan]

Told you it was early....

Is there any way to integrate the search box without listing the downloads data above? I'd like to have three pages which all display a single category of downloads with the search box at the top of the page. eg.. [display search] [download id="1" display="both"]

Is this asking too much? I kinda get the feeling it might be...

Thanks

[GaMerZ]

Take a look at WP-Admin -> Downloads -> Download Templates under "Download Page Footer:" The code for the search is there.

[kylematthews]

Are there any plans to integrate the downloads search into the basic wordpress search? My users wind up getting confused when I tell them there are multiple search engines they need to use on our site, depending on whether they want to search posts or downloads.

[GaMerZ]

Sorry that is not possible.