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Possibility to track searched keywords

makar Member
in General support
I doesn't seem like there is any possibility to track searched keywords now (correct me if I'm wrong).

It would be very helpful if searched keywords could be displayed somewhere in the back-end, or alternatively search query would be translated in to URL (e.g. http://www.google.com/#&q=sun+photo) so keywords could be tracked via a raw log.

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  • sbillard Member
    I am not clear on what you are asking.

    The actual search parameters can be displayed. The Effervescence+ theme does this.

    There should be no problem for you to log them somewhere of your choosing.

    If you mean to have the object's "tags" in metadata then the html_meta_tags plugin will do this. If you want "search words" other than tags, then you will have to do this yourself. There is probably an ifinite number of possible other "search words" that Zenphoto cannot possibly anticipate.
  • makar Member
    Zenphoto always presents this URL (without query in it) when it has performed a search for a keyword:

    http://www.zenphoto.org/zenphoto/page/search/

    And I was thinking if it were possible to do it this way, like in Google, so I could see in a log what people are looking for:

    http://www.google.com/#&q=sun+photo

    Or is it still possible to track what is being searched, as it is now? I did not locate that option in Effervescence+, could you please point me to it?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    No, we currently do not track/store what is searched. So you actually want a search query statistic similiar to the general gallery statistics on the overview page?

    It might be possible to store that but I think sbillard will have to answer if this possibly creates too much overhead since it would have to be stored in the database.
  • makar Member
    It would be very nice to have such statistic on the overview page, indeed. But if it is too much trouble maybe it's just possible to pass search keywords to URL.

    Hypothetical example:

    http://www.zenphoto.org/zenphoto/page/search#&q=forest+flower

    So I could see what people are looking for, and are interested in, by looking at server log.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    That would require a lot of changes to the search engine I guess. I personally like the idea of a statistic of the overview page or even intergrated in the current statistics.

    I will have to leave this to sbillard though.
  • sbillard Member
    The search itself is quite happy with parematers in the URL instead of in the POST. However, of course, the current themes and function all use the POSTing method. You could code your own search which did pass the parameters as part of the URL, but the URL would look like .../page/search?words=xxx&tags=yyy... etc.

    The '#' is definately out since that redirects to the page you were on not the theme's search page. Substituting "q" for "words" would just be a .htaccess change. How you would deal with the other parameters that search can accept would be up to you.
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