Fulltext search question

[mhalloran]

I'm hoping this is possible...

I have a fulltext search that searches through three fields (title, subject, content.) Is there any way to put more "weight" on the title field than the content field?

[saraadmin]

Weighting applies more to sorting than searching.

PHP doesn't provide a direct method of weighting search results but that doesn't stop you from writing your own. You want to create a result array that looks like this:
array (..) [
{record_id} => {weight},
{record_id} => {weight},
....
]
and populate using a search algorithm which multiplies the number of matches in 'title' by 2 and in the other fields by 1 for the weight values. Then sort it by weight.

Richard.

[mhalloran]

Good idea. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the post.