Search 'All' Feature

Wish we could have a 'free' Search All feature built into the standard search menu.  It would be great to put in some key words and search all the ads not just specific categories.  I asked Vlad about it and apparently it would cost quite a bit and be a slog for updating etc.  Anyone got any thoughts about this? :-[

In the lasted version, this function has been included.
You can find it in the Demo.

But...I understand, it would be a pain for old version to upgrade.
I'm a new user, but I already begin to feel it.

I am currently on version 794 and have also asked Vlad about a year ago for the search all feature. I was told it cost alot of money and would require many coding changes.  After reviewing the code I was able to include a search all feature with as little as one line of code.

Any chance of sharing the code?
 

[<option value="All" selected>All Categories]

Here is what I did in Header.htm.

Add the line in bold.


         <select name=cid class=txt8>
             <option value="All" selected>All Categories
         <!-- TPL_INSERT : b_Categories_Sel -->
         <!-- TPL_CELL : def -->
            <option ##sel## value="##id##">##name##
         <!-- /TPL_CELL : def -->
         <!-- /TPL_INSERT : b_Categories_Sel -->
         </select>

Works like a charm for me!!     Let me know how it works for you.
   

tried the above code and all i got was a mysql error. I've done a lot of customization so upgrading doesn't seem reasonable for me

gthomas - had a bit of trouble with this feature so he set the value = "0" and all is good.

I'm confused . All my version have a selection for "All" or "All Categories" in dropdown and it works fine.

The search bar in the header of your site.  Do you have a "All" there?

Yes. It has been in every version that I ever used.

For some reason the latest version I used didn't include a dropdown for "Any Words", "All Words", and "Exact Phrase",  so I added them back in.

What's the URL?

"All Categories" option for keywords search was implemented in build 797 to appear always.

In older releases it appears only if all your categories have the same fields set, i.e. when you don't use category specific ad fields.

If you'll just add 'All Categories' in HTML with id=0 the search will not produce accurate results in most cases.

http://www.onestopri.com

I use different field sets in this site and I don't think that I changed search in header except I did add boolean dropdown which I think works ok......  There are no ads to search so it is hard to test  


p.s. "All Categories" does not appear in advanced search.

Vlad, Is there a reason why boolean was not included?

 If MySQL full-text search engine is used for keywords search, boolean search works starting from MySQL 4.0.1, so it was removed not to cause confusion for MySQL 3.23.x users.
 It works ok at your website because you have MySQL 4.

Actually I just did a test and did notice a problem. A keyword search will not find words in description field. I checked to see if I had keyword searchable selected and noticed that there is no option for that in f_descr.