LiveSearch

Just a minor amendment to the above stuff. If you are running your livesearch on several pages (mine is on every page in my site) you might want to modify ./index.php … to /index.php …. and change the script call to /livesearch.js - that way it’ll always look from the root up and be able to find it. I had this problem momentarily on my individual entry pages since they call from the comments template.

Just fyi! =)

I am glad you brought it to my attention. With a fair bit of tweaking, this could be made into a much more general and powerful tool. Grabbing data and updating a page (without reloading the page) in real time…quite a few possibilities there. Shoutboxes…private messaging…link lists…Gmail checking…etc.

The only downside is the amount of backend work being done by using a template, but there might be ways to manage that that could be looked into.

Well, if your entire site is in EE, then ./index.php should still work because really EE is only calling one file ‘index.php’ and everything else is a query string.

Wow, that’s pretty slick! If you can, you should certainly try porting this over to be a Plugin, Paul. In your copious free time, of course. [grin]

Paul… it definitely wasn’t working on my individual pages which is why I had to go and change it. I guess because it was index.php/weblog/comments/title-of-post/ ? ./ would have been weblog no?

Changing it to / fixed it anyway - just something I had to do to make it work. =)

I think it would be fantastic if this kind of thing were eventually rolled into EE as options or whatever. Cutting edge stuff, very neat. =)

Hm, I wonder if the browser would not have seen the difference between the page and the query string, so you are likely right. My bad. A browser is not Apache after all, I suppose.

Yes, and now I have visions of wonderful JavaScript widgets available in EE. Focus! I must focus. Developer API first…

drools I’ll tell you, every day that passes I’m more and more happy that I went ahead and switched to EE. You are all amazing and I am really looking forward to seeing what else comes out of the EE geniuses. =)

If this does make it into a plugin, I’d love the ability to search the full text of the post, not just the titles… I tried reading the code so that I could do that but I’m so lost 😉 Or would that be just too much load?

I wish there was a glutton for punishment smiley. Yes, I would suspect that this would be available as an option. Might take a look at the search module if you want to understand how to make an

Not really, in 3 weeks I start a really difficult two years of study, I’m trying to be as lazy as humanly possible right now… 😉

Ohhhhhhhh, I see how it is….

grins plus you’re so good at this, Paul. A genius with it. =)

Flattery will get you everywhere…

I just added this to my site, and it works great. Thanks, Paul!