Will you implement the ability to search for events that take place within specified dates? That would be the ultimate solution rather than simply omitting any reference to the date (of an event) within search results. Perhaps I maybe rather isolated in my opinion but I feel displaying events without any date information is going to be very frustrating to my users.

Ahmet wrote:

Just wondering if this has been fixed yet?

Yes that's fixed one error but you still need to sort out the CSS.

Do a search for "York" on http://www.yorkshire-events.co.uk

It looks OK until until you enable Google Style.

Doing some further investigation and getting some advice, it appears that Class AcesearchExtension in extension.php does not have the getFilterParam method.

It seems the methods are in Class AcesearchHTML which is in html.php but when you check the parameter it is different.

function getFilterParam($db_field,$name)
parent::getFilterParam($where,array('location::text'=>'country'));

This is really odd because the error message states "Fatal error: Call to undefined method AcesearchExtension::getfilterparam()....." noting that "getfilterparam" is all lower case.

I downloaded administrator/components/com_acesearch/extensions/com_eventlist.php, opened it and found both lines 103 and 135 were actually function calls for "getFilterParam" noting that it contains 2 upper case characters.

This might not be an issue on Windows servers but I am running Joomla on case sensitive Linux systems. However what I can't figure is why it is looking for "getfilterparam" when the code is clearly "getFilterParam".

I should add that "getFilterParam" is defined in the file html.php.

The above error message is with the advanced search.

However I added a further menu item for the standard search and get the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method AcesearchExtension::getfilterparam() in /var/www/vhosts/******.co.uk/httpdocs/administrator/components/com_acesearch/extensions/com_eventlist.php on line 135

If you want the actual URL, send a PM.

Got an email this evening saying you have launched a new version of AceSearch so I installed it on a website that had NOT previously had AceSearch installed. Installation seemed to go OK but got the following message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method AcesearchExtension::getfilterparam() in /var/www/vhosts/*******.co.uk/httpdocs/administrator/components/com_acesearch/extensions/com_eventlist.php on line 103

This comes up only when the handler is set to "AceSearch ext" but not when the handler is set to "Search plugin".

Secondly the search results break the template which is strange because the search forms did not and I am using the default Joomla template.

Ahmet wrote:

I know because I stated this in my original post.

Denis Dulici wrote:

I have tried the above but the date still appears despite disabling both "Days" and "Date Range". Please see attached.

I am using the free version of AceSearch and nicely getting to grips with your excellent component but have an issue with the extension that searches Eventlist items (ie. events). The search results return a date but this is the date that the event was entered into the Eventlist directory, not the actual date of the event. Normally that would not be an issue with results such as news articles (K2) or entries into a hotel directory (Sobi2) but if people are searching and see a date in the search results that lists events, they are naturally going to think that is the date of the event !!

I looked in the settings and spotted the 'Show Properties' radio button which switches on/off the line with date in it. Perhaps it might be a good idea to modify the Eventlist so it returns the event date rather the created date?

Does the paid for version offer any further functionality to accommodate this?


Edit.
I have just looked at the advanced search page and this is going to cause even more confusion to users. You can enter date ranges which any user is going to think he is searching for dates of the events, not when it was actually entered into Eventlist. This is a very big usability issue.

Well answering my own question, the answer is the Sobi2 bash cloning script does indeed do the business. I have two clones called sobidir01 and sobidir02 so cloned ext_acesearch_sobi2.zip, installed the cloned extensions, tried a search and got the correct results.

Bloody marvellous.

This looks a great product but I am wondering if it can cope with cloned versions of Sobi2? If the SOBI2 AceSearch extension does not support clones out of the box, has anyone run the Sobi2 bash cloning script on it?