Search (Drupal) Preg_class_exclud for forward slash "/"

[eec]

Hi

 

we have product names with "/" and "-" in them (the name has got forward slash in it). I did study the search engine behavior and code and could overwrite the search.php to let me handle the "-" differently and now dash-esh are ok.

 

But appears that forward slashes are making the search string explode, which in our case is not good. I cannot properly search products with "/" in their names.

 

Do you know how can I fix this issue? I need the search not to do anything with slashes and only treat forward slash like any other alphabet or character.

 

Thanks!

[PascalVG]

Hi eec,

You need to escape the / with a \

 

 

Here some more:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16657152/matching-a-forward-slash-with-a-regex

 

 

 

My 2 cents,

pascal

[eec]

Hello Pascal

 

I need to fix this in the search module. but apparently before I can touch the phrase it is getting exploded because of "/" delimiter. How can I stop the search module from changing the search phrase because of "/".

 

I noticed in search.php comments they have removed \x{d} to keep the "dash" or "-" do I need to remove another \x{?} to keep the "/"? I'm not really familiar with drupal classes or how else I can escape the "/" in search phrase in the search.php

 

Thanks

[eec]

Hello

 

I managed to fix the issue and here is what I have done;

 

in Search.php where they have removed the dash \x{2d} I also removed the x{2f} which is the ASCII code for "/" (forward slash). This way the search code will consider "/" a normal character which is the case in our shop and products.

 

Then in definition of $intersect_array[] where the SQL query is being defined I handled the forward slash also the dash according to our shop's requirement.

 

Open source rocks!

 

Thanks,

 

This issue is SOLVED!

[max30]

Hello eec,

 

I also have product names with a "-" in them.  Could you describe in layman's terms how you fixed the issue. 

 

 

Thanks