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I know the prior version did not support categories in the search content targets, but I’m curious if 2.0 does. I may be reading the docs incorrectly, but it does the advanced search form category parameter allow for this? Adding a couple category ID’s did not seem to work, but I may be doing something wrong. Searching is working within channel data btw.

If this is not currently possible, does anyone have any solution for making this work? If not, would using one of the 3rd party tagging solutions (such as Taggable) solve my problem?

Seems to me using categories to feed search results makes a lot of sense. Am I missing something? Is there a better way to do this?

thanks in advance,
Ammon

I know the prior version did not support categories in the search content targets

I don’t fully understand that sentence. Do you mean you want to search and limit by category? The advanced search form should allow you to select a category or categories, yes.

No, I’d like the search results to return entries who’s category name matches the search query.

I am afraid that’s not out-of-the-box functionality. Your best option would probably be a custom query here.

Thanks for the response. Is there any more information anyone can give me to initiate this custom query? Would I need to modify the search php function itself? Or is there a simpler path?

You wouldn’t have so much modify the search as basically run it yourself, taking the search term the user submits and query the database (including categories) for them. Let me know if you want to discuss this further and I can move this thread to Howto for you.

Yes, please move the thread.

Just to clarify, the ideal scenario is:
1. user searches using a simple/single field
2. all entry fields (that have search enabled) AND all category names would be used
3. a single page of results

I understand how to query the DB directly to filter entries, but I do not understand how to combine these two (apparently) different modes of search.

thank you for your time!

Moved as per request.