Once you’ve set up a searchable behaviour on a doctrine model, and have indexed all the keywords on the model, you are going to want to build a search tool. First we should create a simple symfony form.
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Yesterday I explained how to add the Searchable behaviour to a doctrine object, to I’ll cover that how to create a symfony task to re-index all the existing objects. The basic idea of the task is to retrieve all the objects from your database, mark them as dirty and re-save them. If you don’t mark them as dirty, nothing will update when you save, which is what you would expect from doctrine.
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The searchable behaviour within Doctrine is a brilliant and powerful way to add a quick and simple search to your symfony code. The basics of this behaviour are to create an index table for your given model, which contains 4 things, a keyword, the field it was in, the position and the object id it was in.
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This week I was trying to locate which files in the codebase use a specific class method while debugging some code. This method however has been used a lot, when I say a lot I mean 10 to 20 times per file, and in lots of templates. This is mainly because it is a template helper to generate complex links within the page. Anyway, a simple use of grep wasn’t all that much help, so I refreshed my memory on how to use sed to make the output a little more readable.
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