Account Search Wildcard - SugarCRM - php

Question

I'm looking for a way to do a wildcard search when searching for accounts in SugarCRM but I'm having trouble getting the queries to work properly.
Here's the build_generic_where_clause() function:
function build_generic_where_clause ($the_query_string) {
$where_clauses = Array();
$the_query_string = $this->db->quote($the_query_string);
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.name like '%$the_query_string%'");
if (is_numeric($the_query_string)) {
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_alternate like '%$the_query_string%'");
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_fax like '%$the_query_string%'");
array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.phone_office like '%$the_query_string%'");
}
$the_where = "";
foreach($where_clauses as $clause)
{
if(!empty($the_where)) $the_where .= " or ";
$the_where .= $clause;
}
$log = fopen('1.txt', "a");
fwrite($log, $the_where . "\n");
return $the_where;
}
I only changed array_push($where_clauses, "accounts.name like '%$the_query_string%'"); to include the percentage signs on either side of the_query_string.
Here's processSearchForm() from view.list.php:
function processSearchForm(){
if(isset($_REQUEST['query']))
{
// we have a query
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && preg_match('/action=EditView/', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) { // from EditView cancel
$this->searchForm->populateFromArray($this->storeQuery->query);
}
else {
$this->searchForm->populateFromRequest();
}
$where_clauses = $this->searchForm->generateSearchWhere(true, $this->seed->module_dir);
if (count($where_clauses) > 0 )$this->where = '('. implode(' ) AND ( ', $where_clauses) . ')';
$GLOBALS['log']->info("List View Where Clause: $this->where");
$log = fopen('1.txt', "a");
fwrite($log, $this->where . "\n");
}
if($this->use_old_search){
switch($view) {
case 'basic_search':
$this->searchForm->setup();
$this->searchForm->displayBasic($this->headers);
break;
case 'advanced_search':
$this->searchForm->setup();
$this->searchForm->displayAdvanced($this->headers);
break;
case 'saved_views':
echo $this->searchForm->displaySavedViews($this->listViewDefs, $this->lv, $this->headers);
break;
}
}else{
echo $this->searchForm->display($this->headers);
}
}
Note that I only added the log file write to catch the $this->where. If I use the searchbox to find an account such as "Newbold" as well as "New York Design", I only get "Newbold" as a result and my log file reads (accounts.name like 'new%'). So the first percentage sign is being removed somehow or another, I believe in the processSearchForm() somewhere. It's tough to figure out if that's the case or if the culprit lies elsewhere. I find this code to be a bit convoluted and all over the place, but this is the only customization I need done. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Answer 1

You should be able to do this without changing any code. When you're searching from the Accounts list view, simply add the wildcards to your search in the form. Put '%$the_query_string%' in the search form.
If you're wanting to programmatically use a wildcard to search for records, you can do something like the following.
<?php
$filter = 'ABC%'; // account names that start with 'ABC'
$account = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts');
$accounts = $account->get_list("", "accounts.name like '".$filter."'");
foreach ($accounts['list'] as $account)
{
// do something with $account
}
get_list() will pull what you need. One thing to note, get_list() will only return the numbers of records that you have your list views to return. So if your list views only show 20 records, get_list() will return up to 20 records. If you want to get all results, use get_full_list().