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Attribute filtering with integers in eZ Find 2?

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Jordan Hirsch

Monday 09 February 2009 6:04:40 am

I have just read the latest documentation for eZ Find 2 (http://svn.ez.no/svn/extensions/ezfind/docs/ezfind_1.1_manual.pdf) and I see you can add attribute filters to an eZ Find search using facets, like so:

fetch( ezfind, search, 
    hash( query, 'eZ Systems',
        filter, array( 'car/in_stock:1',
                'car/make:Alfa Romeo',
                'car/model:8C' ) ) )

Is it possible to do more advanced filtering such as greater-than or less-than on integer fields using eZ Find? What would would the code look like? I am new to eZ Find and even newer to facets, so please forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't find it in the documentation.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Nicolas Pastorino

Friday 20 February 2009 2:22:43 am

Hi Jordan,

First, do not forget to check the latest stable version of eZ Find :
* http://ez.no/company/news/ez_systems_releases_apache_solr_based_open_source_enterprise_search_solution_ez_find_2_0
* http://ez.no/doc/extensions/ez_find
* http://ez.no/ezfind/download

You can use a bunch of Solr query syntax bits in the 'filter' parameter of the fetch function, among them a range search, with finite or unfinite bounds. A code example would be :

fetch( ezfind, search,
   hash( query, 'eZ Systems',
       filter, array( 'article/rating:[3 TO *]' 
            )))

This would return all articles containing the words 'ez' and 'systems', for which the rating is higher than 3. You could inverse the filter by using the following syntax in place :

[* TO 4]

I hope it helped,
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