Comments on: FULLTEXT Search with MySQL and CodeIgniter

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:33:37 +0000

Hi Yuri. It’s difficult to make guesses without seeing your data and queries. Double-check the ‘FULLTEXT gotchas’ I mention in the ‘Searching the Data’ section.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:13:35 +0000

Hi, I’m trying to do for your example, but fails to display the search results.
‘There are no results for your query.’
Database I filled the content.
Maybe I have missed something?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:10:52 +0000

I think you basically need to have ‘default’ values for your search parameters. For example, you could have:

function search($keywords = 'none', $location = 'all', $start = 0)

Then check within the function for these as special cases. You can’t use the empty string (as I have in my example) because by missing it out, the consecutive slashes in the URL will be ignored.

(I just noticed a bug in my _setup_pagination function by the way—it wasn’t making use of the $uri_segment, which may help you out if you’re using additional URL segments.)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:23:29 +0000

Hey there, first let me say thanks! This is a great tutorial.

I’ve converted this to use 2 search fields, one for “keyword(s)” and one for “location” – It works nicely as far as the search part goes but, breaks the pagination. If the user only enters a keyword and no location, then clicks “page 2″, it assumes that “10″ is the location. On the other hand if the user enters keyword and location the pagination works fine… Any tips on how I can tell it that there was no location and to use that part of the uri segment for pagination?

thanks!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:26:11 +0000

Thank you a lot for sharing this.

That was sooo helpful.

I only changed the following in my setup: The default value for $results_per_page I set to 10, and I skipped the following if-statement. Because in your setup if no value is passed to the method it will select all entries. I don’t ever want this, so I changed it.