[TYPO3-commerce] article search in FE

[Franz Koch]

Hi Ingo,

>> is there somewhere a little FE search-functionality for articles 
>> hidden in the SVN? Or is such a feature planned? I was thinking of a 
>> search-engine with selectable search-modes:
>> - search for article-number / ean
>> - search for attribute
>> - search for prices from/to
>> - search for string in description/title/teaser
>>
> We don't have such a feature in the SVN right now.

Is it planned? Or would it be interesting for you to implement such a 
feature as part of commerce (pi7 or what ever)?

>> If this is not planned I might be willing to contribute that feature - 
>> but I would need some help from you for the best practice of searching 
>> different stuff, because I saw that you use your own db-wrapper or 
>> something like that.
>>
> We do have objects for the complete output, but if you do want to 
> implemet a search, you may will to go to the database. If you want to 
> use the methods, you'll have to instantiate to much objects, and this 
> would slow down your machine.
> 
> But if you have resolved successfully the articles and products, you 
> want to render for the output, you'll should use the objects, to have an 
> easy rendering.. Here you might have a look at the pibase and the method
> renderProductsForList which renders a product list of a given list of 
> product uids.

Ok, thanks. Yes, I also think a direct SQL-query would be better.

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Greetings,
Franz Koch