With SimpleSearch you could use a custom driver.
This would be faster than running one query to get the IDs and then a second one to do the actual search.
I created this Github repository some while ago as an example:
Basically what you have to do is the following:
- Create a custom folder in
core/componentswith a “bootstrap.php” to load your custom class. - Add a namespace for this custom folder in the MODX manager (
→ “Namespaces”) - Use either the default driver class from SimpleSearch (
core/components/simplesearch/src/Driver//SimpleSearchDriverBasic.php) orsrc/Driver/Custom.phpfrom my Github repo as the starting point and hard-code the specific changes you need to filter the query. - Change the system setting
simplesearch.driver_classto your custom driver class.