My friend has a problem with the search bar on their site - www.loveallthingssexy.com

 

Basically any searches typed in the search bar bring no results

 

The site is installed with magento.

 

 

Does anyone know why this might be?

Edited January 18, 201214 yr by cab322003

My first suggestion would be: are the products' visibility set to just "Catalog", instead of "Catalog, Search"?

Thanks for the response, renaissance .

 

Yes all the products are set to catalog, search...

 

Any other suggestions?

I'd suggest disabling all Magento caches while troubleshooting, btw. Right, some other things to check are (in no particular order) that whatever attributes you want to be searchable have "use in quick search" selected, that all DB tables are in utf-8 (if one has somehow accidentally got switched to ucs2 it'll arse up fulltext searching) and that all indexes have been rebuilt (especially if it's been upgraded from a version < 1.2). It's also worth checking the ft_min_word_len and ft_max_word_len MySQL system variables.

Thanks for the suggestions but a lot of that went over my head lol -

 

 

I have set the attributes that I want to be searchable in quick search now. I notice a lot of their items have no meta title or descriptions so I tried adding them and making those attributes searchable in quick search but still no luck.

 

Can you just explain to me in layman's terms how to do these two things you mentioned -

 

"all DB tables are in utf-8 (if one has somehow accidentally got switched to ucs2 it'll arse up fulltext searching) "

 

"It's also worth checking the ft_min_word_len and ft_max_word_len MySQL system variables."

 

 

I would be very grateful

Edited January 18, 201214 yr by cab322003

You'll have to log in to the DB using phpmyadmin (or whatever's available) to check character sets. There you can also run the query: SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES; which will, uh, show you the variables.

you have refreshed the catalog search index?