LiveSearch

…as my son would say “my bad” - I missed the period in the code.

No errors now, but also no results for “search” which generates 5 results via the simple search.

I think there is something wrong with the template that does the actual search. No matter what I put in the URL, I get No Results every time. Ex:

http://www.yoursite.com/welcome.php/KB/livesearch?s=search

Here is the contents of the template “KB/livesearch” It was copied from this thread.

<?php

global $IN, $DB, $LOC;

if (!$IN->QSTR) { exit; }

$search_phrase =& urldecode($IN->QSTR);

$query = $DB->query(“SELECT distinct(a.entry_id), a.url_title, a.title, b.blog_url FROM exp_weblog_titles a, exp_weblogs b WHERE a.weblog_id = b.weblog_id AND a.status != ‘closed’ AND (a.expiration_date > ‘”.$LOC->now.”’ OR a.expiration_date = ‘0’) AND a.title LIKE ‘%{$search_phrase}%’ ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 0,10”);

if ($query->num_rows == 0) { exit(‘No Results’); }

foreach($query->result as $row) { echo ‘<a href=”’.$row[‘blog_url’].$row[‘url_title’].’”>’.$row[‘title’].’</a><br />’; }

?>

Well, call me a fool, I should have seen the problem sooner. Try this:

liveSearchReq.open(“GET”, “/welcome.php/KB/livesearch/” + document.forms.searchform.s.value + “/”);

It works…wise one. Thanks.

Where do I change the search results page that is used? It is dumping out to a different page than the simple search results.

Upon submission? The problem is that the EE search is too complicated for such a simple form. The original incarnation of it had the form go to the first result, but that would require making everything a bit more complicated.

I found the errant setting for search results and corrected it in the search preferences.

How does Livesearch choose which weblog to use for the templates? It currently is choosing the original “weblog1” settings.

Also, can the searching be restricted to a single weblog?

Livesearch appears to only be searching the title - is this true?

Can the simple_search be modified to accept 2 characters (3 seems to be the default)?

Do you think that the “keyboard navigation” will be added to the EE version.

Thanks Paul.

It searches all weblogs via title currently, and then creates the links based on that entry’s weblog’s Weblog URL.

Yes, only title.

Yes, but it requires a javascript change, look for this and change the 4 to a 3:

if (liveSearchReq && liveSearchReq.readyState < 4)

Sure, why not. This add-on is not a high priority so do not expect to see it for a while yet.

Any more thoughts on making this an actual plugin?

Still a really cool plugin idea, but still no time soon. I have a nice list of things I must do before I can focus on this, but if anyone wants to try their hand at it I could probably give pointers in the Developer forums.

this is awesome. I was pulling my hair out trying to get something to work with this script, then I found this thread and viola! Yay! thanks 😊

I just deployed this on my test pages in like 10 minutes… Paul/Chris/LJ thanks for the tips/ideas and code 😊

Is there anyone using this tread’s metod anymore?

I was until a few days ago, may put it back on my search page. Just didn’t fit on my main page anymore.