Search image caption files

[felixnielsen]

Is there any way to use the search API to search through image caption files (*.jpg.txt) and returning an array with images whose caption contains the query, alternative return the caption file it self.

[texnixe]

See this solution:

Search for files

I tried to implement a custom files methods only to realize that files methods only work with $page->files() files objects, while $pages->files() returns a collection object. However, you could use the following function, which is a simple port of the pages` search function: function search($files, $query, $params = []) { if(is_string($params)) { $params = array('fields' => str::split($params, '|')); } $defaults = array( 'minlength' => 2, 'fields' => array(), 'words' …

A filter with a callback function would work here as well.

[felixnielsen]

Ok, that makes sense. Only thing that is strange now is that my $pages->files() is an empty collection…

[texnixe]

Do your first level pages contain any images at all? $pages->files() will grab all images from all first level pages, i.e. the folders directly in content, not from any children of these pages. Use page('blog')->children()->files() to get a collection of all files of all subfolders of the blog page, for example.

[felixnielsen]

awesome, the custom search works and I am now targeting the page correctly (page(‘page-type’)) to search through it’s custom image captions, works like charm.