Search in multiple models(free search, not related, just like Yii website's search)

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi, everyone,

I am making a search function in my website.

I know that each model has a search function so I can search within this model or in the relative model easily,

However, has anyone tried to search FREELY? So I can make a search function like goole’s site-search or the search in this website(you can search extension, forum, whatever).

Is there a way to build a search class to search all pages in the website(all models)?

Any hints about this site-search/free search/or some tricky/hacky way to acheive the search like the one on Yii’s website?

Thanks!!!!!!

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You mean something like this?

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That’s great! thanks!

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Just one question…

In the post http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/248/adding-search-to-yii-blog-example-using-zend-lucene

How could he access each page’s url?? Should I save each page’s url in the database…???? i don’t think that is a good idea…

I tried his code and it always give me


Field name "link" not found in document.

Any ideas…?

It will be useless if i can’t get each page’s url…

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Jiaming,

No…no, not the database.

Just as you do not store each post url in the database, however the post url is still accessible. The same principle applies here.

<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">So, judging from


$post->url

This basically means that you may define a public property in your model class. Then some method to Yii::app()->createUrl()

to access your site.

I do not think the author wrote it as a copy paste code.

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In fact, the yii blog will make the point clearer.

The author did say based on yii blog. He’s writing style also leaves the reader with homework exercise.

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That is very helpful. Thank you!