Inconsistent Proximity Distance with city options

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  • January 17, 2017 at 7:31 am #344191

    chris west
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    Hello,

    I am not sure if it is a bug, but…

    After pushing the searchbutton with an empty search field AND

    a) typed in city e.g. [wien] I get a proximity distance which is great!

    b) typed in city e.g. [wien (City or Region)] I get NO proximity distance.

    is that correct? because registered locations (regions and cities) have lat/long, too.

    thanks

    January 17, 2017 at 7:33 am #344192

    chris west
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    January 17, 2017 at 5:52 pm #344597

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    the 1st is a search by proximity, it makes more sense when users search a zip code or a street address and it will show you listings around a specific location ordered by distance.

    When you type in a city and search it calculates the distance from the center point of the city (which doesn’t make a lot of sense).

    The second case is Search WITHIN a location and position them by distance (from what?) isn’t ideal.

    Hope the explanation is clear enough.

    Thanks,

    January 17, 2017 at 9:17 pm #344751

    chris west
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    Yes, yes, I understand.

    I was just wondering, because it`s not consistent. thanks.
    just for consistency I would expect the long/lat WITHIN a location.

    January 18, 2017 at 11:21 am #345062

    chris west
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    I want to excuse me, to be a bit annoying, but…
    I know, php mods are not available from your service.
    but maybe you can give me a hint?

    I`m just reading me into php and want to try ist myself.
    would you be so kind to tell me, in which files do I have to take look for these functions? to get the functionallity of 2a.

    It seems to me, all actions/hooks or whatever are there, but are only connected in a different way.

    thanks

    January 18, 2017 at 5:03 pm #345193

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    that will be in geodir-search.php, but I can tell you already that it won’t be an easy thing to accomplish.

    Especially if you are not an expert developer.

    Thanks

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