EE Livesearch

The picture is w/o changes.

Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities : No

sigork, have you tried version 1.0.5?

yes, 1.0.5 was used, the same picture (like in a previous post of mine above, with the strange symbol at the end in some entries).

I’ve updated to 1.0.5, still does not work. Except that when I enter American Express, I get the blue line as if I entered Morgan Stanley (see my screenshots here)

Not sure if this is related to Jinjiru’s problem, but Mark I just installed your (excellent) Live-search extension on a client’s server running PHP 4.2.2 and it won’t work. So after calling a query directly to the extension I realized the problem is that you’re calling

mysql_real_escape_string()

which is doesn’t exist prior to PHP 4.3.

I fixed the problem by breaking it out and calling the older and deprecated

mysql_escape_string()

Don’t know if it’s worth Mark’s time doing anything about this, but thought I’d bring it up in case it helps anyone…I don’t think this extension is “silly” as mark said, I think it’s become pretty darn handy to me.

And as always, have to reiterate my thanks to Mark for all his awesome work.

installed quickly and easily. i wanted to make my input field a bit longer (from 200px to 400px), as well as show more characters (instead of capping off at 25, increased to 50).

here is a quick little hack to extend the size of your search query text field, and the resulting drop down box i’ve just done this this morning, so i highly recommend you keep your original ext.livesearch.php safely stored just incase of some error (back up your backups 😊).

line #436:
change this: width:200px
to this: width:400px

#447:
width:200px
width:400px

#492: (this appears twice)
> 25) ?
> 50) ?

#492:
, 25)).
, 50)).

#513: (this appears twice)
> 25) ?
> 50) ?

#513:
, 25))
, 50))

little screenshot below. i hope it’s clear. 😊

Trying out your various extensions, and this is another winner. Great stuff!

This is very handy Mark, esp on sites with thousands of entries, thanks for releasing it!

I just had one tiny feature request - would it be possible to include something that allows you to hit [esc] to close the search results box? Unless I’ve missed something obvious, once the live search is invoked, the results stay there, and the only way to close it is to refresh, as far as I can tell (FF 2.0).

Thanks! 😊

or just clear out your search term and the results should go away.

Ah true, I just found myself hitting escape on auto-pilot to try and get out of the results, and thought it might surprise users if it had no effect. Ctrl/cmd-a, delete is pretty quick too I guess in terms of workflow, but maybe not as intuitive?

Enabling this adds a “Livesearch” field to the top of the admin pages. Typing in there will select entries and comments containing the inputted text. Give it a whirl and let me know how it works.

I was just wondering about some way to do this last night. i have to give your plugin a go. It may do what i need: …. i am finding it cumbersome to work in the edit field of my EDIT/PUNLISH template. I have to scroll long entries looking for various strings of text to correct / change etc , … is there a tip to make working with long entries easier?

Honestly, for really long entries, I find myself copying/pasting the text into Apple’s Pages or Textmate to doing my editing in there.

Mark, thanks for this great extension, saves a lot of time.

My concern is that it does not work with CLONE ENTRIES extension. Nothing breaks but Livesearch disappears from CP when Cloen is turned on. is that fixable?

using v 1.0.5

Do you have a link to the clone entries extension? I’m not familiar with that.