[SOLVED] Sorry for double posting, PHP Live Search code question

[gene99]

 

Sorry for double posting. My first time here.

 

I found the PHP Ajax Live Search code here > http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_livesearch.asp

 

I edited an rss/xml feed for recent listings from a php directory I use the same as the links.xml file example they give & got it working > http://www.easysavannah.com/livesearch.html

 

Problem is I cannot get it to search the "description", only the "title" & "url". The "livesearch.php" listed here >> http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_livesearch.asp seems to mirror in ways the php for the MSN Live Search API code > http://dev.live.com/blogs/livesearch...01/08/445.aspx

 

w3school's code snippet:

 

Quote:

$hint="";

for($i=0; $i<($x->length); $i++)

{

$y=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('title');

$z=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('url');

if ($y->item(0)->nodeType==1)

{

//find a link matching the search text

if (stristr($y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue,$q))

{

if ($hint=="")

{

$hint="<a href='" .

$z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue .

"' target='_blank'>" .

$y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>";

}

else

{

$hint=$hint . "<br /><a href='" .

$z->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue .

"' target='_blank'>" .

$y->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>"; 

 

MSN Live Search php snippett:

 

Quote:

echo('<li class="resultlistitem"><a href="' . $value->childNodes->item(2)->nodeValue . '">'); //Url echo('<h3>' . $value->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . '</h3></a>'); //Title echo('<p>' . $value->childNodes->item(1)->nodeValue . '</p>'); //Description } echo("</ul>"); 

 

I've tried a multitude of ways to add an echo into "w3"s code for allowing the code to search a description in an xml page.

 

Has anyone seen a solution for this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Gene

 

PS. Code sample on index page of directory I'm testing > http://www.easysavannah.com/index2.html (middle below header)

 

[MadTechie]

Its kinda unclear what your asking for, it sounds like you want to parse a XML, Can you provide an XML sample/link

[gene99]

I am able to take an rss/xml file from all listings in my directory(s) & convert it to a file like this one in 5-10 minutes > http://www.w3schools.com/php/links.xml  This is the example file in the php live search code at > http://www.w3schools.com/ . I've done maybe 6-7 different possible changes & none works. I am just looking for a way to allow the <descriptions> in the xml to be keyword searched & the listing title (& url) & description to show in live search dropdown. At present only the title & url are searched. I use friendly urls so it's the same search result always. I can edit out the <title></title> from the xml & switch the <description></description> tags to <title></title> w/ "replace" feature in Notepad but it's a pain. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks, Gene

[MadTechie]

OKay i assume the XML looks like this

 

<pages>
<link>
<title>PHP Freaks - This is a sample</title>
<description>I am a description</description>
<url>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,277452.0/topicseen.html</url>
</link>
<link>
<title>PHP Freaks Main Page</title>
<description>PHP Freaks is a website dedicated to learning and teaching PHP. Here you will find a forum consisting of 86915 members who have posted a total of 963580 </description>
<url>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums</url>
</link>
</pages>

 

from that this should work fine

 

<?php
/**
$q='description'; // returns  1
$q='Freaks'; // returns  2

*/

$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->load('c:\277452.xml');

$x=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('link');

//get the q parameter from URL
$q=$_GET["q"];

//lookup all links from the xml file if length of q>0
if (strlen($q) > 0){
$hint="";
for($i=0; $i<($x->length); $i++){
	$a=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('title');
	$b=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('description');
	$c=$x->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('url');
	if ($a->item(0)->nodeType==1){
		//find a link matching the search text
		if (stristr($a->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue,$q) ||
			stristr($b->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue,$q)){
			$hint .= "<a href='" .
			$c->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue .
			"' target='_blank'>" .
			$a->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "</a>".
			$b->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue . "<br />\n";
		}
	}
}
}

// Set output to "no suggestion" if no hint were found
// or to the correct values
if ($hint == "")
{
$response="no suggestion";
}else{
$response=$hint;
}

//output the response
echo $response;
?> 

[gene99]

It works great! Thank you so much. Do you mind if I post this solution at PhpMyDirectory boards? If you ever need any help over there let me know. Maybe I can help ya. I'll see how well we can tackle the css to get a better look maybe & post it back here. Thanks again, gene99 

[MadTechie]

I don't mind, of course I couldn't exactly stop you either

It may be worth including a link back to here (if its allowed), but I'll leave it up to you

[gene99]

Consider it done. Thanks alot, Gene

[MadTechie]

Your very welcome