eZ Find 2 - excluding attribute from search

Friday 27 March 2009 2:11:31 pm

Not easily for attributes, though you could use the boost functions of eZ Find and add this as parameters in a custom search template.

However, better is to expose this query time functionality as parameters. Can you file an enhancement request?

Thanks
Paul

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Friday 03 April 2009 10:29:50 am

I've implemented temp/dirty solution:

Modified /ezfind/classes/ezfezpsolrquerybuilder.php, buildSearch() function

- below $queryFields added the following code

$queryFields = .......
		
//exclude "internal_tags" attribute from search on the front site
$currentUser = eZUser::currentUser();
$webUser = $currentUser->Login;
if ($webUser == 'anonymous') {
	$key_to_be_deleted = array_search('attr_internal_tags_t', $queryFields);
	$this->array_delete($queryFields,$key_to_be_deleted);
}
eZDebug::writeDebug( $currentUser, 'currentUser' );

- based on the currentUser I can remove key and value from queryFields array

- added array_delete function (from php.net manual)

public function array_delete(&$ary,$key_to_be_deleted)
{
	$new = array();
	if($key_to_be_deleted) {
		if(!array_key_exists($key_to_be_deleted,$ary)) {
			return;
		}
		foreach($ary as $key => $value) {
			if($key != $key_to_be_deleted) {
				$new[$key] = $value;
			}
		}
		$ary = $new;
	}
	if(is_array($key_to_be_deleted)) {
		foreach($key_to_be_deleted as $del) {
			array_delete(&$ary,$del);
		}
	}
	eZDebug::writeDebug( $new, 'array_delete' );
} 

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