How to track "user searches"

[Rico Suave]

I don't use the enhanced search function, just use the standard search from the VM Module on my website.

I want to track what people are searching for. How can I do that?

Any hints?

[Daan]

si si....

try to google the text TFSforjoomla....this works for me!!!

You will see:

IP adresses included their search words etc..
Visitors by country etc
and many more statistics

good luck!

[Rico Suave]

thnx friend

[turvas]

another way is to use standard VM search and use Joomla Site Seach statistics for that, in VM 1.1.2 and J 1.5.8 works following: add following code snippet to virtuemart_parser.php, somewhere line 180, see it with preceding line:

$keyword = substr( urldecode( vmGet( $_REQUEST, 'keyword' )), 0, 50 );

// log the search in JoomlaSearch statistics by turvas
require_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.'administrator'.DS.'components'.DS.'com_search'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'search.php' );
SearchHelper::logSearch( $keyword);

[turvas]

small fix:
if (!empty($keyword)) {
  require_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.'administrator'.DS.'components'.DS.'com_search'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'search.php' );
  SearchHelper::logSearch( $keyword);
}

[p.barg]

Hi,

any idea how this could be achieved with joomla 1.1?

-- Petra

[yomasimo]

I need to track searches for virtuemart 1.0.x on joomla 1.0.x

any clues?

[lipes]

great post Turvas  ... +1 to you!

[turvas]

hi again,

just thought I will share my  experience for VM2, same topic - my previous solution works with different placement of code.
I found nice place for it in file components\com_virtuemart\views\category\tmpl\default.php around line 143 or better yet, copy this file to templates\<your template>\html\com_virtuemart\category and make modification there (so they are not lost with VM updates)

Code: [Select]

<?php
  if (!empty($this->keyword)) {
// 2 lines added by turvas: log/record user searches
require_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.'administrator'.DS.'components'.DS.'com_search'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'search.php' );
SearchHelper::logSearch($this->keyword);
?>