Limiting search results

[Peter Knight]

I have about 50 pages which are just containers for their child pages.

What's the most efficient way to exclude these parent pages from Searches?

I'm using Ryan's code here

Quote

<?php

				// search.php template file
				// See README.txt for more information. 

				// look for a GET variable named 'q' and sanitize it
				$q = $sanitizer->text($input->get->q); 

				// did $q have anything in it?
				if($q) { 

					// Sanitize for placement within a selector string. This is important for any 
					// values that you plan to bundle in a selector string like we are doing here.
					$q = $sanitizer->selectorValue($q); 

					// Search the title and body fields for our query text.
					// Limit the results to 50 pages. 
					$selector = "title|body~=$q, limit=50"; 

					// If user has access to admin pages, lets exclude them from the search results.
					// Note that 2 is the ID of the admin page, so this excludes all results that have
					// that page as one of the parents/ancestors. This isn't necessary if the user 
					// doesn't have access to view admin pages. So it's not technically necessary to
					// have this here, but we thought it might be a good way to introduce has_parent.
					if($user->isLoggedin()) $selector .= ", has_parent!=2"; 

					// Find pages that match the selector
					$matches = $pages->find($selector); 

					// did we find any matches? ...
					if($matches->count) {

						// we found matches
						echo "<strong>$matches->count page(s) match your query:</strong>";

						// output navigation for them
						echo "<ul class='uk-list uk-list-divider'>";

						foreach($matches as $match) {
							echo "<li><a href='$match->url'>$match->title</a>";
							echo "<div class='summary'>$match->summary</div>";
							echo "<div class='search-path'>{$match->path}</div></li>";

						}
						 
						

						echo "</ul>";

					} else {
						// we didn't find any
						echo "<h2>Sorry, no results were found.</h2>";
					}

				} else {
					// no search terms provided
					echo "<h2>Please enter a search term in the search box (upper right corner)</h2>";
				}

	?>

 

 

I guess I have a few options but is number 2 here the best way or is there anything I haven't considered which would be better?

1. Mark as 'Hidden: Exclude from lists and searches"
Isn't an option because it hides from lists which I use.

2. Tell the selector to ignore a particular template(s)
Sounds like a good approach

3. Create my own checkbox called "Search Ignore" and add it into a selector
Could work but it seems like a ton of work to manually edit all the pages I want to ignore

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[abdus]

22 minutes ago, Peter Knight said:

Tell the selector to ignore a particular template(s)
Sounds like a good approach

this seems like the best approach. If these parents have a distinctive feature that can be used to select them (a certain parent, template, field etc), then use $pages->getIDs() method and update your selector to exclude the children with $pages("..., has_parent!=$hidableParents");

Edit: has_parent supports single values, you can build a string for multiple OR groups (has_parent=!35), (has_parent=!72), (...) etc

[JoshoB]

^ Templates seem the most likely option. I usually have parent pages a different template from children, so you could do "template!=example", or specify the child templates, i.e. "template=child-example".

If the child pages don't have any child pages of their own, you can also exclude them on that basis?