Live Search Plugin

Oh wow. Thats great! It works. I added the line to the page with the php and updated the scr*pt with script. This is so awesome!

Now I am going to update this script so that I can pull from 3 weblogs and from 10 different custom fields. 😊

Thanks so much!

Hey Pascal,

I successfully extended the plugin to pull from three weblogs. The autocomplete works great but I would like for the autocomplete search window to disappear when I click somewhere else on the page. Right now it seems the only way to get rid of the window is to delete the entered search characters. Any ideas of what I’d have to add to the plugin?

thank you, kindly Florian

That’s odd, works fine for me.

It’s also in the code - the underlying jQuery plugin binds an onBlur event to hide the results. Does firebug throw any errors?

This is a great.

As it only has the ability to search titles does anyone know how to edit the plugin php so it can do this:

Live search returns no results. Instead of the default “No Result”, it returns:

“No result. Click here to use our advanced search page”

With the link going to a specified URL. i.e www.mysite.com/site/advanced_search/

thanks anyone

That’s a great idea!

Although I kind of know how, could someone post simple instructions on modifying the code to pull in a further weblog field, from the same weblog.

Thanks

I couldn’t use

$('#keywords').livesearch('{site_url}search/livesearch/11/');

to search a specific section. Maybe it’s better to alter the following code in pi.live_search.php at line 54:

change:

$search_phrase =& $IN->QSTR;

in:

$search_phrase = (! isset($IN->SEGS[sizeof($IN->SEGS)])) ? '' : $IN->SEGS[sizeof($IN->SEGS)];

In this case, the plugin always searches the last segment.

Just my 2 cents..

Thanks for the code dj-rowan, but I’m not getting it to work on my Structure install. My links are in this format: /index.php/site/index/wedding-packages instead of: /weddings/wedding-packages

Any ideas?

Actually, I managed to fix that problem. However, now that I have the URLs working for my Structure pages, the links for my ‘standard’ weblogs don’t work, the ones with no page URLs. This is my code right now:

global $PREFS; 

        $site_pages = $PREFS->ini('site_pages');

        $data = '[';
        foreach($query->result as $row) 
        {
            if (false !== $site_pages 
                && isset($site_pages['uris'])
                && isset($site_pages['uris'][$row['entry_id']])
                )                
            {
                $path = $site_pages['uris'][$row['entry_id']];
            }
            else{
                $path = $row[$link_to];                
            }
                    
            $data .= '{ "title" : "'.$row['title'].'", "path" : "'.$path.'" }, ';            
            
        }
        
        // Take off the last comma
        $data = substr($data, 0, -2);
        $data .= ']';
        
        echo $data;
        exit;

Sorry if this has already been answered but how to i limit the search to particular sections?

Sorry if this has already been answered but how to i limit the search to particular sections?

I have the same question except I want to exclude one section.

Great plugin by the way!

• Jordan

This post describes how to limit it to a particular weblog. Doing the opposite is a little more complicated, but it’ll still be something along those lines.

Has anybody had trouble getting this to work in IE6? I’ve tested in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, IE7, and IE8 with no problem, but for some reason I keep getting an ‘invalid character’ error in IE6 only. I’ve tried jQuery 1.2.6, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, and 1.4.2 to no avail.

Nevermind, IE6 wasn’t cool with gzipped JSON results. For posterity: if your livesearch.js implementation is giving you “invalid character” or other not-so-helpful errors in IE6 only, examine your page headers. I set up a test on a different server which worked, and finally got down to GZIP being the problem.

Thanks again, IE6.