Extended Searchoptions

Monday 12 April 2010 2:38:52 am

Hi Moritz and welcome to the eZ Community,

Your description sounds like a sort of advanced search, and yes, you can achieve this type of things with eZ Find, very easily. While your description is short for a whole project, you may want to give us some more insight so that we can elaborate!

Cheers and talk soon,

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Tuesday 13 April 2010 3:34:44 am

Hi Moritz,

If i understand correctly it is all about integrating third-party data. Given the need for a proper search on the latter, one working recipe can be the following :

• Integrate your external data in the content engine through a custom datatype ( mind the volume though, if you have 2.5M rows of external data, rethink this :) ). This helps sticking to eZ standards, allows for native usage of the presentation layers and modules, usually a development speed boost.
  More on this : http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/creating-datatypes-in-ez-publish-4
• Customise your data's interface with the search engine (eZ Find/Solr) by extending your datataype's search-related behaviour, using eZ Find's 'subattribute' feature. Here is a good starter for understanding it : http://share.ez.no/forums/extensions/ez-find/add-sub-attributes-to-a-custom-solr-field-mapping
• Use eZ Find's search API ( from the template language or PHP directly ) to build the search GUI. More on the template API (reflecting the PHP api directly) : http://ez.no/doc/extensions/ez_find/2_2/customization/template_fetch_functions

Hope this helps a bit!
Cheers,

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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
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