[TYPO3-dev] commerce and crawler

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi Rico,

> Well I managed to get the indexing working but there was still a problem 
> left which, I guess, would be a nice feature for the crawler.
> 
> You can actually manage to crawl pages with plugins on them and their 
> content with a rule like that:
> tx_crawler.crawlerCfg.paramSets.commerce = 
> &L=[|_TABLE:pages_language_overlay;_FIELD:sys_language_uid]&tx_commerce_pi1[showUid]=[_TABLE:tx_commerce_products;_PID:112] 
> 
> 
> But with a lot of category pages ... where one page only shows certain 
> records from the designated category and all products are stored within 
> the same sysfolder (_PID:112) you get a lot of junk within your search 
> table. For example
> - on the page for "Vaccuum cleaners" you actually only show the 
> respective products (e.g. with id 1,3,38)
> - overall you have 300 products within the sysfolder for products.
> - with the standard condition this will get you 300 possible variations 
> for that page because it finds that much products within the products table
> - so you have 297 useless combinations which will be indexed and 
> probably fill your db with junk
> - now imagine what would happen with about 25 categories!
> 
> My suggestion would be to include a filter hook for this kind of 
> situations where you can just say 
> &tx_commerce_pi1[showUid]=[_FILTER:someextensionclass->functionname;_SOMEPARAM:somevalue] 
> 
> 
> and then the crawler object would call the filter function if possible 
> in order to influence the results :)
> 
> 
> will play around with it a lill :)
> 

if you have found a solution, i'll be glad to add this to the commerce 
manuel. Could you send an email at team(at)typo3-commerce.org?

Many thanks

ingo

> greets Rico
> 
> 
> Rico Moorman wrote:
> 
>> Hi there everyone!
>>
>> Has anyone already tried the combination of the crawler and the 
>> commerce extension in order to index products and include them in the 
>> searchresults?
>>
>> I am following the docs of indexed_search and the crawler as presented 
>> on typo3.org but that does't have any effect. At least not for the 
>> search results.
>>
>> As for the crawler himself he seems to do quite ok ... having nearly 
>> 5000 records within the queue and having finished about 300 right now. 
>> But then when I switch to the indexed search info module I just dont 
>> get  products listed.
>>
>> I have several category pages within a "products" page and within the 
>> pageTS config there I have
>>
>> tx_crawler.crawlerCfg.paramSets {
>>   commerce = 
>> &L=[|_TABLE:pages_language_overlay;_FIELD:sys_language_uid]&tx_commerce_pi1[showUid]=[_TABLE:tx_commerce_products;_PID:112] 
>>
>>   commerce.procInstrFilter = tx_indexedsearch_reindex
>>   commerce.cHash = 1
>>   commerce.baseUrl = 
>> http://mydevmachine/~myusername/dvl/theproject/trunk/
>> }
>>
>> maybe there is someone who already encountered this kind of problems?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>
>> greets Rico


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