Leverage the search() method to search inside arrays

manuelmoreale · March 23, 2023, 6:32pm

I’m wondering if it’s possible to leverage the native kirby search functionality to recursively search through array entries rather than through a collection of pages.

Is it possible? I tried to search in the docs but I didn’t find anything useful.

manuelmoreale · March 24, 2023, 8:18am

I’ll answer my own question. Apparently no but I can reuse the search logic to perform a slightly different search for my use case.

bnomei · March 24, 2023, 12:53pm

search should work on any collection not just pages collections so you can feed your array into one and run the search then.

github.com

getkirby/kirby/blob/9ecd11cd5b7d4875d4212f767a2b3ad3e52b3528/src/Cms/Search.php#L37


      
          	}
          
          
	/**
          	 * Native search method to search for anything within the collection
          	 *
          	 * @param \Kirby\Cms\Collection $collection
          	 * @param string|null $query
          	 * @param mixed $params
          	 * @return \Kirby\Cms\Collection|bool
          	 */
          	public static function collection(Collection $collection, string $query = null, $params = [])
          	{
          		$kirby = App::instance();
          		return ($kirby->component('search'))($kirby, $collection, $query, $params);
          	}
          
          
	/**
          	 * @param string|null $query
          	 * @param array $params
          	 * @return \Kirby\Cms\Pages
          	 */

bnomei · March 24, 2023, 12:55pm

something like this (without proper namespaces)

$collection = new Collection($data);
$results = Search::collection($collection, $query, $params);