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How to Integrate Zoom Search Engine into Prestashop

Jul 18, 2016

In this article I would like to tell you how ZoomSearch which is a easy-to-use and easy-to-configure search engine can be integrated according to your needs. It allows the following:

Easy to use and install, up and running in minutes;
No advertising and no annual fees;
No scripting knowledge or editing required;
No complicated database setup procedure;
No external web service required;
Highly configurable;
Search static and dynamic web page formats (HTML, PHP, ASP, CF, etc.);
Search in PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, XLS, SWF, JPG, GIF, and many other file types;
Runs on almost all web servers and hosting plans;
PHP, Classic ASP, .NET, JavaScript, and CGI support in one package.

Let’s discuss the integration in more detail. Creating a configuration page is quite easy. As it is already created we only have to implement it:

//zoom_search.php
public function getContent()
{
    return '<iframe src="' . $this->_path . 'zoom/ZoomIndexer.php" style="width: 100%; position: absolute; height: 100%; border: none;"></iframe>';
}

//zoom_search.php

public function getContent()

{

return '<iframe src="' . $this->_path . 'zoom/ZoomIndexer.php" style="width: 100%; position: absolute; height: 100%; border: none;"></iframe>';

}

The result will be the following:

Further we build up a search page for store visitors:

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//controllers/front/search.php
class zoom_searchSearchModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController
{
    public function initContent()
    {

        $this->context->smarty->assign(
            array(
                'path_search_file' => $this->module->getPathUri() . 'search/search.php',
            )
        );

        $this->setTemplate('search.tpl');
    }
}

//controllers/front/search.php

class zoom_searchSearchModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController

{

public function initContent()

{

$this->context->smarty->assign(

array(

'path_search_file' => $this->module->getPathUri() . 'search/search.php',

)

);

$this->setTemplate('search.tpl');

}

//views/templates/front/search.php
<iframe src="{$path_search_file}" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none;"></iframe>

1 2	//views/templates/front/search.php <iframe src="{$path_search_file}" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none;"></iframe>

Here we go with a simple search page that can be stylized in accordance with our needs:

The process of module configuration is not complicated as well.

We switch on the indexing of our website:

The indexing is finished. After that we check how the search is working:

Zoom search allows configuring a search page, list output, searching results in a rather flexible way. This includes list enumeration, quantity of symbols in the search result page description, availability of a direct link, quantity of posts on a page and search among categories (to my opinion, the most essential one). We can divide the website into sections and a user can select search by the whole website or the section which is most interesting for him.