function search_simplify

Same name in other branches
  1. 7.x modules/search/search.module \search_simplify()
  2. 9 core/modules/search/search.module \search_simplify()

Simplifies and preprocesses text for searching.

Processing steps:

  • Entities are decoded.
  • Text is lower-cased and diacritics (accents) are removed.
  • hook_search_preprocess() is invoked.
  • CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters are processed, depending on the search settings.
  • Punctuation is processed (removed or replaced with spaces, depending on where it is; see code for details).
  • Words are truncated to 50 characters maximum.

Parameters

string $text: Text to simplify.

string|null $langcode: Language code for the language of $text, if known.

Return value

string Simplified and processed text.

See also

hook_search_preprocess()

7 calls to search_simplify()
SearchQuery::parseSearchExpression in core/modules/search/src/SearchQuery.php
Parses the search query into SQL conditions.
SearchSimplifyTest::testSearchSimplifyPunctuation in core/modules/search/tests/src/Kernel/SearchSimplifyTest.php
Tests that search_simplify() does the right thing with punctuation.
SearchSimplifyTest::testSearchSimplifyUnicode in core/modules/search/tests/src/Kernel/SearchSimplifyTest.php
Tests that all Unicode characters simplify correctly.
SearchTokenizerTest::testNoTokenizer in core/modules/search/tests/src/Kernel/SearchTokenizerTest.php
Verifies that strings of non-CJK characters are not tokenized.
SearchTokenizerTest::testTokenizer in core/modules/search/tests/src/Kernel/SearchTokenizerTest.php
Verifies that strings of CJK characters are tokenized.

... See full list

File

core/modules/search/search.module, line 223

Code

function search_simplify($text, $langcode = NULL) {
    // Decode entities to UTF-8
    $text = Html::decodeEntities($text);
    // Lowercase
    $text = mb_strtolower($text);
    // Remove diacritics.
    $text = \Drupal::service('transliteration')->removeDiacritics($text);
    // Call an external processor for word handling.
    search_invoke_preprocess($text, $langcode);
    // Simple CJK handling
    if (\Drupal::config('search.settings')->get('index.overlap_cjk')) {
        $text = preg_replace_callback('/[' . PREG_CLASS_CJK . ']+/u', 'search_expand_cjk', $text);
    }
    // To improve searching for numerical data such as dates, IP addresses
    // or version numbers, we consider a group of numerical characters
    // separated only by punctuation characters to be one piece.
    // This also means that searching for e.g. '20/03/1984' also returns
    // results with '20-03-1984' in them.
    // Readable regexp: ([number]+)[punctuation]+(?=[number])
    $text = preg_replace('/([' . PREG_CLASS_NUMBERS . ']+)[' . PREG_CLASS_PUNCTUATION . ']+(?=[' . PREG_CLASS_NUMBERS . '])/u', '\\1', $text);
    // Multiple dot and dash groups are word boundaries and replaced with space.
    // No need to use the unicode modifier here because 0-127 ASCII characters
    // can't match higher UTF-8 characters as the leftmost bit of those are 1.
    $text = preg_replace('/[.-]{2,}/', ' ', $text);
    // The dot, underscore and dash are simply removed. This allows meaningful
    // search behavior with acronyms and URLs. See unicode note directly above.
    $text = preg_replace('/[._-]+/', '', $text);
    // With the exception of the rules above, we consider all punctuation,
    // marks, spacers, etc, to be a word boundary.
    $text = preg_replace('/[' . Unicode::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY . ']+/u', ' ', $text);
    // Truncate everything to 50 characters.
    $words = explode(' ', $text);
    array_walk($words, '_search_index_truncate');
    $text = implode(' ', $words);
    return $text;
}

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