Thread: Searching

When I do a search for a SKU and search for an item such as "B-5054", I am not able to search. It always asks me to enter more than 3 characters. I changed the minimum search length to a 1 and it still says I don't have the minimum search characters. Why doesn't the search like the "-"?

We use a regular expression for validating the search term entered, that allows 0-9, a-z, A-Z, and the space char. Anything else will cause that to break unless the string before the offending character is more than the minimum search length.

If you have the source, you can change that regex. That's in the AspDotNetStorefrontControls project, in Search.cs - line 399.

Thanks Scott! For those wondering, here is what I change my regular expression to be:

Code:

[0-9a-zA-Z  -]

By default it is just "[0-9a-zA-Z ]" so I added the - in there so we can search by our sku's which contain a -.

Is there any problem with allowing single and double quotes in this search box? The reason I ask is because of sql injections and I'm wanting to make sure you handle those elsewhere before I allow single quotes.

Nothing is written to the database during search and I don't see anything in the sproc that could be at risk from something like this so you would probably be ok, but I think I would probably skip that just to be on the safe side if it were my store.

I noticed that the advanced search allows the apostrophe by default. Should I add code to escape the single quotes or should I be ok? The problem is that some of our products have an apostrophe in their name and if I put it in the search (e.g. Elmer's) I am told that the search needs to be longer than 1 character.

I think you'll be ok allowing apostrophes.

Originally Posted by chrismartz

Thanks Scott! For those wondering, here is what I change my regular expression to be:

Code:

[0-9a-zA-Z  -]

By default it is just "[0-9a-zA-Z ]" so I added the - in there so we can search by our sku's which contain a -.

Thank you for providing this. It was very helpful!

ASPDNSF - you should make this a stringresource so ppl don't have to have the source code to alter it.

I am trying to find the folder described above.
I run a multi store and i could not find AspDotNetStorefrontControls project



the only file that fit the term "aspdotnetstorefrontcontrols" was a dll file. Do we need to decompile it and then edit and then recompile?

I also looked for in Search.cs thinking it was a file, but i could not find that either.

http://forums.aspdotnetstorefront.co...t=search+fails