Comments on: CakePHP Site Search with Yahoo! BOSS

By: Neil Crookes » CakePHP Searchable Plugin

Neil Crookes » CakePHP Searchable Plugin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:51:07 +0000

[...] and provided a single results set from multiple models/sources. Normally I’d use the CakePHP Yahoo BOSS site search I wrote and blogged about previously, but this particular app requires users to login to access [...]

By: Ma'moon Al-Akash

Ma'moon Al-Akash — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:31:23 +0000

Thank you very much, this will help us a lot and will save us a lot of time, effort, and resources in terms of implementation!
Thanks again neil!

By: Neil Crookes

Neil Crookes — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:12:03 +0000

Thanks for your comments everyone.

Yes, Yahoo needs to index your site first for this to work.

To use it to search the web, I think you can probably just leave the sites value blank. Check the Yahoo BOSS documentation for more information.

By: Bingeboy

Bingeboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:14:39 +0000

Does yahoo need to index your site for this to work? I have it working on all sites but my newest that isn’t being read on yahoo search either.

Thanks

By: Fahd

Fahd — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:52:28 +0000

If I wanted to use BOSS to search the web instead of my site, should I just leave the ’sites’ value blank?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Thanks, this is excellent! Rarely does anything work so easily and with so little setup. The only issue I had was with a $startQuote / $endQuote being undefined but I just added those variables to the dataSource and all behaved just fine.

Thanks again, this saved a lot of time!

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:10:10 +0000

Thanks for this! I am looking forward to start using it!

I have got a question. For this to work, does my site needs to be in the Yahoo!’s index allready? I guess so, or is it crawling my site as soon as I start using this?

Thanks!

By: Buck Muck

Buck Muck — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:38:50 +0000

Multiple sites did not work for me as an array. I fixed this. If you want the updated yahoo_boss_source.php file email me and I’ll send to you as I couldn’t submit to github.

By: Buck Muck

Buck Muck — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:55:51 +0000

Really great work Neil! I was looking to implement BOSS on cakephp as I previously used a searchable behavior but that gets quite cumbersome when trying to index multple models. Then saw that you’d already done the hard yards. Thanks!

By: Yahoo Search BOSS as a CakePHP Plugin | PseudoCoder.com

Yahoo Search BOSS as a CakePHP Plugin | PseudoCoder.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:57:26 +0000

[...] the CakePHP digest I posted the other day I linked to Neil Crookes’ CakePHP datasource for using Yahoo! Search BOSS. BOSS stands for Build your Own Search Service and is a cool way to [...]