Products with special characters

Edited search description

Hello,

Yes, by default plugin removes all such special chars from the search query. But you can change this. Please use following code snippet:

add_filter( 'aws_special_chars', 'my_aws_special_chars' );
    function my_aws_special_chars( $chars ) {
        unset( $chars[array_search( '/',$chars )] );
        unset( $chars[array_search( '/',$chars )] );
        return $chars;
    }

You need to add it somewhere outside the plugins folder. For example, inside functions.php file of your theme or use some plugin for adding code snippets.
Also, after adding this code, you need to re-index the plugin table.

Regards

Hi,

Thanks for that. I did as you suggested and it works for the dot character but not for the forward slash character. Where there are several products with titles and descriptions containing something like 55/10 and 55/20, when I type something like 55/ all the product titles turn to null and the short descriptions just get completely removed.

Did you re-index after adding this code?

Yeah I did

Please try to modify code above to

add_filter( 'aws_special_chars', 'my_aws_special_chars' );
    function my_aws_special_chars( $chars ) {
        unset( $chars[array_search( '/',$chars )] );
        unset( $chars[array_search( '& #47;',$chars )] );
        return $chars;
    }

Remove space inside & #47;

Still getting the same result. I tried it without removing the ‘/’ too and only removing the ‘& #47;’ without the space. When I only remove the ‘& #47;’ there’s no change to anything, just when I remove ‘/’ I get the null results. Also re-indexing table with every adjustment to the code.

I tested further and it seems the search functionality works fine so if I type something like 55/10 appropriate results will show up but as soon as the ‘/’ is typed into the search bar all search highlighting disappears. Removing the dot ‘.’ has worked though and where the search highlighting disappeared before similar to the ‘/’ it now appears.

Also if it helps, when I remove the ‘/’ character and get the null results in the search bar, if I press enter to go to the search results anyways an error message appears on the search results page:
Warning: preg_replace(): Unknown modifier ‘)’ in /…../public_html/wp-content/plugins/advanced-woo-search/includes/class-aws-search.php on line 791

Yes, you are right. I see the same error now.

And looks like I understand why this happens. You can fix this issue in two ways:

1. Disable ‘Highlight words’ option from the plugin settings page.

2. Edit plugin source code. I will add the same changes to the next plugin release, so don’t worry about the updates.

So please open advanced-woo-search/includes/class-aws-search.php file, find lines

foreach( $this->data['search_terms'] as $search_in ) {

and replace with

  foreach( $this->data['search_terms'] as $search_in ) {

                $search_in = str_replace( '/', '\/', $search_in );

Awesome, works perfectly now. Thanks for the fix!