Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.I have created a web site and am trying to figure out why the articles I would expect to appear in the Similar Entries module are not.
I have created a page here:
http://www.theaquariumsolution.com/?q=node/88
This node is about "eco-coolers". I have written 5 articles specifically with "eco-coolers" menitoned and related keywords for the module to pick up on.
This page shows that the articles exist:
http://www.theaquariumsolution.com/articles
Yet the module is only picking up on two of the "eco-coolers" articles and only one of them is a high result. The other articles seem completley unrelated when scanning through for keywords.
I would like to know in a bit more detail on how the module works out its search priority and if this can be controlled. ie I would like to put more weight on the title.
Comments
Comment #1
deekayen CreditAttribution: deekayen commentedIt uses the natural language search capabilities documented at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html
The module submits the complete body and title of the currently viewed article to the match function. I don't have anything in mind that would be a good way to weight the results.
Comment #2
iancawthorne CreditAttribution: iancawthorne commentedIs there a way to print out some kind of info to show what keywords the module has picked up on? Like a debug mode.
Comment #3
deekayen CreditAttribution: deekayen commentedThat would be nice. I'd have to research it cause I don't know of a way to do that.
Comment #4
iancawthorne CreditAttribution: iancawthorne commentedI commented out part of line 200 in similar.module so that (I think) the title is only used for the ordering. This appears to give results as I would expect:
$text = $node->title/. ' ' . $node->body;
changed to:
$text = $node->title/* . ' ' . $node->body*/;
Comment #5
deekayen CreditAttribution: deekayen commentedYes, that's one way to do it I spose. If that's what you wanted, I'll keep this open as a feature request so that can be part of the official feature set in the next release.
Comment #6
deekayen CreditAttribution: deekayen commentedI know it's not exactly duplicate, but #73084: Support new fields in Drupal core is going to force design changes anyway.