added frontend search functionality with a small menubar

Signed-off-by: rodude123 <rodude123@gmail.com>

dist/api/blog/blogData.php

@@ -444,22 +444,87 @@ class blogData
 
         if ($result)
         {
-            $bodyText = array_column($result, "bodyText");
-            // go through each body plain text and get the sentence before, the sentence with the search term and the sentence after and append it to a new array
-            foreach ($bodyText as $key => $text)
+            for ($i = 0; $i < count($result); $i++)
             {
-                $text = strtolower($text);
-                $searchTerm = strtolower($searchTerm);
-                $pos = strpos($text, $searchTerm);
-                $start = strrpos(substr($text, 0, $pos), ".") + 1;
-                $end = strpos($text, ".", $pos);
-                $result[$key]["bodyText"] = substr($text, $start, $end - $start);
+                $result[$i]["abstract"] = $this->getShortPost($searchTerm, stripcslashes($result[$i]["bodyText"]));
             }
 
-
             return $result;
         }
 
         return array("errorMessage" => "Error, could not find posts");
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the short post with the search term
+     * @param string $searchTerm - Search term
+     * @param $text - Body of the post as plain text
+     * @return string - Short post with the search term
+     */
+    private function getShortPost(string $searchTerm, $text): string
+    {
+        $pattern = '/([,:;!?.-]+)/u';
+        $parts = preg_split($pattern, $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
+
+        $cleanedParts = [];
+
+        foreach ($parts as $part)
+        {
+            $part = trim($part); // Remove leading/trailing spaces and newline characters
+            if (!empty($part))
+            {
+                $cleanedParts[] = $part;
+            }
+        }
+
+        $combinedParts = [];
+        $currentPart = '';
+
+        foreach ($cleanedParts as $part)
+        {
+            if (preg_match('/[,:;!?.-]/u', $part))
+            {
+                $currentPart .= $part;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                if (!empty($currentPart))
+                {
+                    $combinedParts[] = trim($currentPart);
+                }
+                $currentPart = rtrim($part);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (!empty($currentPart))
+        {
+            $combinedParts[] = trim($currentPart);
+        }
+
+        $result = "";
+
+
+        for ($i = 0; $i < count($combinedParts); $i++)
+        {
+            $part = $combinedParts[$i];
+
+            if (stripos($part, $searchTerm) !== false)
+            {
+                $before = ($i > 0) ? $combinedParts[$i - 1] : "";
+                $after = ($i < count($combinedParts) - 1) ? $combinedParts[$i + 1] : "";
+
+                if ($before === "" && $i > 0)
+                {
+                    $before = $combinedParts[$i - 1];
+                }
+
+                $result = $before . " " . $part . " " . $after;
+
+                // If the search term is found, we don't need to continue checking subsequent parts
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $result;
+    }
 }

dist/api/blog/blogRoutes.php

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class blogRoutes implements routesInterface
             }
 
             $featured = $data["featured"] === "true";
-            $insertedID = $this->blogData->createPost($data["title"], $data["abstract"], $data["body"], $data["dateCreated"], $featured, $data["categories"], $headerImg);
+            $insertedID = $this->blogData->createPost($data["title"], $data["abstract"], $data["body"], $data["bodyText"], $data["dateCreated"], $featured, $data["categories"], $headerImg);
             if (!is_int($insertedID))
             {
                 // uh oh something went wrong