Joomla Search & Phoca Products

[FlorianWachter]

Hey Everyone,

i am just setting up a "Shop" or catalogue with joomla.
It would be pretty important, that clients can search for the Product Serial Numbers.
I added a product, entered a serial number, went to Joomla Dashboard, Cponents - Search and indicated the page. The Phoca menu point was not indicated and i can not find the products serial number.
Anyone an idea how i can get that ?

[Jan]

Hi, which search do you mean? In admin or in frontend?

In admin, items can be searched by SKU or EAN.

To search even by serial number, the model in administration needs to be customized:
administrator/components/com_phocacart/models/phocacartitems.php

Jan

[FlorianWachter]

Hi Jan,
thanks for the fast reply.

it´s about the search in frontend. Clients should have the option to search for the product number, or for any other content, written into the shop. So - it would be great, if all things i write into the Phoca - Component could be found in the search in frontend (yootheme & Joomla combined)
Is that possible? For me it would make sense.

[Jan]

Hi, as default, there is no such option because you cannot search each possible item - to save memory resources and have some standard loading time. We are always limited by resources.

So in frontend, the situation is similar, only the file is different:
administrator/components/com_phocacart/libraries/phocacart/search/search.php line cca 391, there you can see searching of SKU or EAN, so you can add serial_number too.

Jan

[Net]

Hiya,
i just installed fresh joomla4 and phoca cart.
I am trying to help my friends get organized and to have one place where they would have old spare parts sorted(basically 20year old junk).
I was thinking putting all these parts in phoca cart, which i started doing, so they can internaly use this combination for keeping parts indexed, and when they use it, to shop it, then the stock would go down as they take the parts.
However, when i created few products/parts, i was simulating how they would find needed part, this is where i am a bit lost.......how do i setup search on the frontside? I am not a programer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Jan]

Hi, it depends on you and Joomla. There are a lot of possible options:

Standard Phoca Cart search:
https://www.phoca.cz/phoca-cart-search-module

Smart Search plugin for Phoca Cart (if you prefere smart search):
https://www.phoca.cz/phocacart-extensio ... uct-plugin
https://www.phoca.cz/phocacart-extensio ... ory-plugin

or you can use AJAX search:
https://n3t.bitbucket.io/extension/n3t- ... rt-search/

Jan

[Benno]

Hi,
see image:


Kind regards,
Benno

@Jan: You were faster again....

[Net]

Hi, it depends on you and Joomla. There are a lot of possible options:

Standard Phoca Cart search:
https://www.phoca.cz/phoca-cart-search-module

Smart Search plugin for Phoca Cart (if you prefere smart search):
https://www.phoca.cz/phocacart-extensio ... uct-plugin
https://www.phoca.cz/phocacart-extensio ... ory-plugin

or you can use AJAX search:
https://n3t.bitbucket.io/extension/n3t- ... rt-search/

Jan

Hi folks,

i tried first suggested option: Standard Phoca Cart search
https://www.phoca.cz/phoca-cart-search-module


Not sure if there are any advantages using other option tho, but this works 👍
@Benno maybe you could share some feedback if you used other search options for phoca cart
Thank you so much

[Benno]

Hi,
I also know only these three modules. You have to try out for yourself which of them meets your requirements the most. All three work.

Kind regards,
Benno

[Nidzo]

@Net you can try n3t PhocaCart Search
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... rt-search/

I use it in my current project. Like Benno said you should try all possibilities