Support for Rainlab Forum?

[RCheesley]

Hello,

I wondered if there was any possibility of supporting the RainLab Forum: https://octobercms.com/plugin/rainlab-forum to enable indexing of forum categories and posts?

[tobias-kuendig]

You can actually add this pretty easy yourself by creating a custom plugin, then add this to the boot method (see https://github.com/OFFLINE-GmbH/oc-site-search-plugin#add-support-for-custom-plugin-contents):

public function boot()
{
    \Event::listen('offline.sitesearch.query', function ($query) {

        $items = \RainLab\Forum\Models\Post::where('subject', 'like', "%${query}%")
                                        ->orWhere('content', 'like', "%${query}%")
                                        ->get();

        $results = $items->map(function ($item) use ($query) {

            $relevance = mb_stripos($item->subject, $query) !== false ? 2 : 1;
            
		     return [
                'title'     => $item->subject,
                'text'      => $item->content,
                'url'       => '/post-url/' . $item->id,
                'relevance' => $relevance,
            ];
        });

        return [
            'provider' => 'Post', 
            'results'  => $results,
        ];
    });
}

Makre sure to fix the url property. I've never used the forum plugin so I don't know how it generates URLs.

Do the same again for channels or whatever data you need in the search results.

Will this work for you?

[RCheesley]

Thanks, I have no idea as I'm not a developer, rather a user/administrator.

I'll see whether this helps the folk who would need to implement.

I was asking more from the perspective of a user, who saw a list of supported plugins including other RainLab ones, and wondering if their forums were likely to be added at some point as a supported plugin.

Thanks for the speedy reply!

[tobias-kuendig]

I'll leave this issue open in case anyone has some spare time to implement it. It's not that complicated and would be a great addition to the plugin.