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radiomusicgroup
radiomusicgroup
@charles-brady
9 years ago
107 posts
I know I'm missing something but when I try to search for something on the forum I never really get any results unless I only use one word... So what am I missing? Is there some magic "" or {{ or ** I need to use?
updated by @charles-brady: 02/25/16 03:55:32AM
michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,714 posts
What are you looking for that's not getting found? Some examples help me see what you see.

The search uses mysql's full text search, its pretty good, but it can get confused. If, for example, you get a letter wrong:

'forwm' instead of 'forum'
https://www.jamroom.net/search/results/all/1/4?search_string=forwm

Its not clever enough to check for spelling mistakes.

In practicality, when I cant find something on jamroom.net that I want to find I use the:
site:jamroom.net xxxxxxxxx
format at my favorite search engine: DuckDuckGo (not a google fan but it works on google too)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3A+jamroom.net+forwm

They have clever search.
radiomusicgroup
radiomusicgroup
@charles-brady
9 years ago
107 posts
For example I wanted to find out how to display more information in the list of songs than just the couple fields already there. I wanted to add songwriter, publisher, label, etc...

I'm sure that has to be a common request so I type in... display song information in chart

and I get nada. No results. So I'm figuring this is not a google type search bar I'm typing into. :)
michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,714 posts
yeah even the search engines dont do a great job with that phrase:

"display song information in chart"
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3A+jamroom.net+display+song+information+in+chart

But what your looking for is the item_list.tpl file for whatever module your interested in.

Inside each modules item_list.tpl file you will find a {foreach} loop

"{foreach} loops"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/development/3142/foreach-foreach

You can add the extra info you want to display inside there and it will be output.
{$item.audio_songwriter}
etc....

Might be good to read this doc too:

"Altering a modules template"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/development/1051/altering-a-modules-template

So that the changes are done in a way that keeps them safe during module updates.