[Pro] How do you do this in Freeway?

Hi All,

One of my clients is asking for a site similar to this one:

The bit he’s most interested in is the search panel and the results thereof.

Is this possible in Freeway or do I have to look at something else like Wordpress or similar?

Thanks,

Graeme


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This type of restricted-term search is something you would need a database to pull off convincingly. Freeway includes an Action to build a simple search engine in JavaScript, but it’s going to use an open search box and a database of every word used on every page of the site. There’s no way you could search for only tug boats, for example, using that system.

Do you have a description of the data “universe” your client wants to search and present? Is that data already collected into something structured, like a spreadsheet or a desktop database? How many records, how well-proofed? Is the data going to change over time? Who will change it? These are all questions that can help you define the problem space, and then the solution.

Wordpress doesn’t have (or make easy) this sort of thing, because it is a general-purpose blogging engine. Its search engine runs in PHP rather than JavaScript, but it’s more or less the same type of search engine – scanning full text for substring matches.

Walter

On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Graeme wrote:

Hi All,

One of my clients is asking for a site similar to this one:

http://www.arenaturkey.com/

The bit he’s most interested in is the search panel and the results thereof.

Is this possible in Freeway or do I have to look at something else like Wordpress or similar?

Thanks,

Graeme

http://www.arenaturkey.com/


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Thanks Walt.

I’m afraid the customer not being very technical, will be supplying me with bits of paper and verbal instructions.

They have used WebYep on another site, so could this be a way of them adding boats?

They may be happy with a list type menu to select from rather than a fully featured search option.

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WebYep would be a good way to add content to the site, but it doesn’t have any sort of search facility. And unlike building the site entirely in Freeway, with WebYep you couldn’t even use Simple Site Search because the content wouldn’t be in Freeway to be indexed.

As far as the pick from a list option – that’s more complex than the open text field search, not less. I don’t see how you’re going to do this without at minimum an admin page(s) to update a database of content, a script to generate the picking lists, and another script to translate requests from those picking lists into a list of results. It’s not a very complex programming job, but it is a programming job, and not something you can do in Freeway with a few Actions.

Walter

On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Graeme wrote:

Thanks Walt.

I’m afraid the customer not being very technical, will be supplying me with bits of paper and verbal instructions.

They have used WebYep on another site, so could this be a way of them adding boats?

They may be happy with a list type menu to select from rather than a fully featured search option.

Graeme


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Hi Graeme
I have used a ‘PHP Search Engine’ script which can work webyep sites and it works really very well. It also updates its self periodically or if you wish you can invoke a manual update within the admin area when ever there is new content. The script can be found here:
http://codecanyon.net/item/php-search-engine/89499?sso?WT.ac=search_item&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=dtbaker
have a test of their example and see if it meets your needs.

Oddly enough this an subject which is being written into the new webyep manual.

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dear max,

i’ve the same problem and would like to integrate php search engine in my web yep-site (i bought it already).
as i read above that this is a theme of the webyep manual i was really pleased. unfortunately i can’t find this chapter in the PDF (vers. 3.3). did i overlook something? if not, do you have an example for me to see how the code is integrated in the freeway-file … would be very kind and appreciated

best regards

ray


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