show comments author in search results

[agez]

Hi there again

I was wondering maybe someone can help me figure out how to show comments author in search result? That's it
thank you

[smart]

But Joomla doesn't shows article's author in search results too.

[agez]

so this isn't possible to show author in search result or it's just too complex?

[smart]

As Joomla doesn't show such information where is no placement for it in search results. But if you strongly needed to add author's name in search result you could insert it before comment's text.

Open file /plugins/search/jcomments.php and replace:

Code: (php)

. "\n  comment AS text"

with:

Code: (php)

. "\n  comment AS text"
. "\n,  userid"
. "\n,  name"
. "\n,  username"

And replace:

Code: (php)

$rows[$i]->text = $comment;

with

Code: (php)

$rows[$i]->text = JComments::getCommentAuthorName($rows[$i]) . ' wrote:' . $comment;

[agez]

thank you very much

[smart]

All works now?

[agez]

Yes but i'm strugling to make author name in bold

Code:

$rows[$i]->text = '<b>' .JComments::getCommentAuthorName($rows[$i]) . ' wrote:' . '</b>' . $comment;

it isnt working ;(

[smart]

Yes but i'm strugling to make author name in bold

You couldn't use HTML tags because Joomla strips them in search result output. If you need <b> tag you need to open file /administrator/components/com_search/helpers/search.php and replace:

Code: (php)

return SearchHelper::_smartSubstr( strip_tags( $text ), $length, $searchword );

with

Code: (php)

return SearchHelper::_smartSubstr( strip_tags( $text, '<b>' ), $length, $searchword );