From 2be90263ec5638562da5b28d192e9dd48f27f2e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Fowler <phalacee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:20:50 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] MDL-29496 Search, Course - Code applied from patch to allow
 courses with a blank summary to be found in searchs - Thanks to Andrew Nicols
 for the patch

---
 lib/datalib.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/datalib.php b/lib/datalib.php
index 478156cd712..503462708fb 100644
--- a/lib/datalib.php
+++ b/lib/datalib.php
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ function get_courses_search($searchterms, $sort='fullname ASC', $page=0, $record
     $params     = array();
     $i = 0;
 
-    $concat = $DB->sql_concat('c.summary', "' '", 'c.fullname', "' '", 'c.idnumber', "' '", 'c.shortname');
+    $concat = $DB->sql_concat("COALESCE(c.summary, ". $DB->sql_empty() .")", "' '", 'c.fullname', "' '", 'c.idnumber', "' '", 'c.shortname');
 
     foreach ($searchterms as $searchterm) {
         $i++;