global search

sean

Hello Karl, I currently need a global search feature. I would like to ask if the next version of this feature will be available and when it will be. Or could you please tell me the idea of global search? I will try to develop it myself. Thank you very much

Karl

sean I would like to ask if the next version of this feature will be available and when it will be.

Global search is planned, but it won't be in next release, which is soon ready and mainly focuses on design and light/dark themes.

sean Or could you please tell me the idea of global search?

The idea is for it to be global search 🙂 It will differ from most other functionality, because search can't really be cached, and it will need to search the file system via PHP for each search query. In most cases it will be fairly fast, but if you have a gigantic folder structure and/or slow server, it could easily be slow.

elgavon

Hey Karl,

Is there any estimation for this feature?
It's going to be really really helpful to be able to search for files based on their content (e.g. search for all the files containing the phrase "hello world")

Karl

elgavon It's going to be really really helpful to be able to search for files based on their content (e.g. search for all the files containing the phrase "hello world")

Hi. Do you mean searching inside TEXT based files like .html .txt etc?

elgavon

Karl

Exactly!

Karl

elgavon Realistically, search based on file text content won't be a feature any time soon unfortunately.

There are two types of search:

1. Search by file name. Relatively fast on SSD disks, and this could be done by PHP in real-time, although there might be some performance benefit from pre-indexing data into a database or datafile.json.

2. Search by file content. This is a very slow process, because PHP would have to open/close all files to search for given text, and then search for text inside each file. This would be way too slow in real-time, and would require a database. The database would then need to get indexed at some point, storing all the text from all documents in the file structure.

I will be adding #1 in the near future, but #2 is currently beyond the scope of Files Gallery.

fabiosistemi

Hi Karl,
I would like to know when recursive search will be introduced.

Thank you

Karl

fabiosistemi I plan to include global search, and assume it will be first quarter 2024.

fabiosistemi recursive search

By default, I think it should search from the application root for a global search feature. Else, someone might search and not understand that the search is limited within the current folder. For recursive search, limiting the search within current (or a specific) folder, this would either need to be an interface option or a config option.

fabiosistemi

Karl

Thanks for the quick reply. This will definitely be a welcome feature.

I look forward to trying it as soon as it is implemented

Thank you

fabiosistemi

Karl Hi, Can you tell me if in the release that you will release soon the search will not be limited as happens now I am inside the folder I am in but will it be global?

I need to have this functionality, I am also willing to support you if the amount can be reasonable.

Thank you

Karl

fabiosistemi Hi, Can you tell me if in the release that you will release soon the search will not be limited as happens now I am inside the folder I am in but will it be global?

Global search will not be in the forthcoming release no. The current feature you see FILTER is not limited, but how it's supposed to work to easily and quickly filter items in current view, for example for selection or download. Global search will be a separate feature, because it's much slower, loading data from the server, and will output results which are entirely unrelated to the current directory.

fabiosistemi I need to have this functionality, I am also willing to support you if the amount can be reasonable.

I wish I could make it go faster, but I'm already working on an update. Sorry.

hadi

Karl hi karl.. any update on global search on file name? as current search only listing file in the specific folder.. as per example if i have ABC file in 3 different folder.. the search fucntion will be able to retrieve the result of location of these 3 ABC files..

Karl

hadi Hello. Sorry, no update on global search, and it's not included in the forthcoming release in a few weeks with extended file manager features. It will eventually be a feature, but I can't give you an immediate timeline for this unfortunately.