Search facility trigger

[Ckay]

Hi and thanks in advance.

 

Currently, when a site user uses the "Product search" facility on our new Prestashop website, a list of the possible matches appears automatically after the user has typed out 3 characters. I've been asked to change this to 2 characters.

 

In the BO>Preferences>Search there is a field Labelled Minimum word length (in characters), which I changed to 2 and above that clicked on the option to Re-build the entire index. All in vain, it didn't make any difference.

 

I then located the following file  modules\blocksearch\blocksearch-instantsearch.tpl and located the following lines of code:

 

$input.autocomplete(
    '{if $search_ssl == 1}{$link->getPageLink('search', true)|addslashes}{else}{$link->getPageLink('search')|addslashes}{/if}',
    {
        minChars: 3,

 

I changed the minChars: 3, to 2 expecting this to do the trick. Unfortunately not.
 

Can anyone help me out on this?

[Ckay]

I've sorted this out if anyone is interested...

 

The above doesn't work for the instant search results, however it does work for 2 characters used as a search string viewed in a separate search page.

 

For the instant search to work with 2 characters I found the theme/<yourtheme>/js/modules/blocksearch/blocksearch.js contains the relevant code. (See below)

 

var width_ac_results =     $("#search_query_" + blocksearch_type).parent('form').width();

    if (typeof ajaxsearch != 'undefined' && ajaxsearch && typeof blocksearch_type !== 'undefined' && blocksearch_type)

        $("#search_query_" + blocksearch_type).autocomplete(

            search_url,

            {

                minChars: 2,

                max: 10,