[Pro] Sharing OpenCart search box with Freeway content

You’re going to have to have two different search boxes:

[Search OpenCart]

[Search Wordpress]

because the two back-ends are not related (or relatable) in any way. If there was an OpenCart plugin for WordPress, such that their databases were co-mingled in some fashion, then it might be possible. I have no idea if that sort of thing is available or whether it allows that degree of customization.

I suppose you could also write a custom form handler that would accept form requests, then re-send them on to the respective back-ends and collate the results on a single page, but that’s way out of scope for “is it even possible” at this distance.

Walter

On May 27, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Jonathan Riddle wrote:

Hello Walter

I am afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean. I don’t have any pages yet as I am trying to establish if it is possible that I can search Opencart from Wordpress before going any further. The site is going to become a bit of a mish mash for a while and now the client wants to have separate search boxes for products (Opencart) and then a general search of the Wordpress site for news articles etc - and that needs to be possible from every page.

I will still want an Opencart search returned in Opencart and Wordpress search returned in Wordpress.

I hope that makes sense.


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Or maybe you want to use a different approach. A site-search script like Sphider http://www.sphider.eu can index any collection of Web pages, real or virtual, and present a single interface to search through all of them. You will have to set that up, build a template for your search results, and most importantly, turn the spider loose on your site on a periodical basis to have it index all of the linked pages. This means that every item in your store and your blog needs to have a working and permanent URL that is linked somewhere public. Every page that could be indexed by Google, for example, would end up in your index. Any page that was only accessible from a search of the respective databases, but did not have a public link to it on some index page somewhere, would never make its way into the index.

Walter

On May 27, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

You’re going to have to have two different search boxes:

[Search OpenCart]

[Search Wordpress]

because the two back-ends are not related (or relatable) in any way. If there was an OpenCart plugin for WordPress, such that their databases were co-mingled in some fashion, then it might be possible. I have no idea if that sort of thing is available or whether it allows that degree of customization.

I suppose you could also write a custom form handler that would accept form requests, then re-send them on to the respective back-ends and collate the results on a single page, but that’s way out of scope for “is it even possible” at this distance.

Walter

On May 27, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Jonathan Riddle wrote:

Hello Walter

I am afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean. I don’t have any pages yet as I am trying to establish if it is possible that I can search Opencart from Wordpress before going any further. The site is going to become a bit of a mish mash for a while and now the client wants to have separate search boxes for products (Opencart) and then a general search of the Wordpress site for news articles etc - and that needs to be possible from every page.

I will still want an Opencart search returned in Opencart and Wordpress search returned in Wordpress.

I hope that makes sense.


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Thank you Walter. I feared this would all be very difficult. It it is the issue I am stuck with due to having to use different CMS set-ups.

I discovered something called Woocart which looks very interesting where it seems to be a bridge between Opencart and Wordpress but it needs something called ioncube installing before I can try the timed trial installation.

Wish I had taken under gardening as a career… Again. I do really appreciate your help, Walter.


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