Question

I am testing out the plugin “searchHighlight” to highlight search terms on our Search page when one searches for a keywords. The problem is that it only reads the referral URL and I do not know how to modify this so it only reads the current URL that your on instead of the referral.

I.e.

1. I use our search box from my home page
2. I search for ‘glass door’
3. Results come up on the search page but no highlighting
4. I click a product with the words ‘glass’ or ‘door’ in it
5. On the product page it highlights the words I searched for (‘glass’ + ‘door’)

Example URL Searched: http://tsqja.deznp.servertrust.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=glass+door&x=0&y=0

From the example I tried to give above you can see it is highlighting based off the Referral URL Keywords. I want it to use the actual search results. Given regex this is my search results page:

[/^http:\/\/(tsqja\.)?deznp\.servertrust/i,/Search=([^&]+)/i]

Anyone know how this can be achieved? Get highlighted search terms based off the above regex via jQuery preferably?

Answer 1

You can use the keys configuration option to set the highlighting up manually on the search page. You could use a small script to get the search term from the url using a regex, then pass the configuration into SearchHighlight:

// Get the keys from the URL using a regex
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/get-query-string-values-in-javascript
...

// Put the keys into the options
var options = {keys: "Glass Door"}
jQuery(document).SearchHighlight(options);

Using the keys option completely disables the referrer checking.