I'm looking for a way to do a wildcard search when searching for accounts in SugarCRM but I'm having trouble getting the queries to work properly.
Here's the build_generic_where_clause() function:
function build_generic_where_clause ($the_query_string) {
$where_clauses = Array();
$the_query_string = $this->db->quote($the_query_string);
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.name like '%$the_query_string%'");
if (is_numeric($the_query_string)) {
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_alternate like '%$the_query_string%'");
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_fax like '%$the_query_string%'");
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_office like '%$the_query_string%'");
}
$the_where = "";
foreach($where_clauses as $clause)
{
if(!empty($the_where)) $the_where .= " or ";
$the_where .= $clause;
}
$log = fopen('1.txt', "a");
fwrite($log, $the_where . "
");
return $the_where;
}
I only changed array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.name like '%$the_query_string%'");
to include the percentage signs on either side of the_query_string.
Here's processSearchForm() from view.list.php:
function processSearchForm(){
if(isset($_REQUEST['query']))
{
// we have a query
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && preg_match('/action=EditView/', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) { // from EditView cancel
$this->searchForm->populateFromArray($this->storeQuery->query);
}
else {
$this->searchForm->populateFromRequest();
}
$where_clauses = $this->searchForm->generateSearchWhere(true, $this->seed->module_dir);
if (count($where_clauses) > 0 )$this->where = '('. implode(' ) AND ( ', $where_clauses) . ')';
$GLOBALS['log']->info("List View Where Clause: $this->where");
$log = fopen('1.txt', "a");
fwrite($log, $this->where . "
");
}
if($this->use_old_search){
switch($view) {
case 'basic_search':
$this->searchForm->setup();
$this->searchForm->displayBasic($this->headers);
break;
case 'advanced_search':
$this->searchForm->setup();
$this->searchForm->displayAdvanced($this->headers);
break;
case 'saved_views':
echo $this->searchForm->displaySavedViews($this->listViewDefs, $this->lv, $this->headers);
break;
}
}else{
echo $this->searchForm->display($this->headers);
}
}
Note that I only added the log file write to catch the $this->where. If I use the searchbox to find an account such as "Newbold" as well as "New York Design", I only get "Newbold" as a result and my log file reads (accounts.name like 'new%')
. So the first percentage sign is being removed somehow or another, I believe in the processSearchForm() somewhere. It's tough to figure out if that's the case or if the culprit lies elsewhere. I find this code to be a bit convoluted and all over the place, but this is the only customization I need done. Any help would be immensely appreciated.
You should be able to do this without changing any code. When you're searching from the Accounts list view, simply add the wildcards to your search in the form. Put '%$the_query_string%' in the search form.
If you're wanting to programmatically use a wildcard to search for records, you can do something like the following.
<?php
$filter = 'ABC%'; // account names that start with 'ABC'
$account = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts');
$accounts = $account->get_list("", "accounts.name like '".$filter."'");
foreach ($accounts['list'] as $account)
{
// do something with $account
}
get_list() will pull what you need. One thing to note, get_list() will only return the numbers of records that you have your list views to return. So if your list views only show 20 records, get_list() will return up to 20 records. If you want to get all results, use get_full_list().