AdvSearch

Package Description

====== Features

• • Hightly customizable

• • • Search form and search results completely customizable through templates and css
    • Result data available in templates as placeholders
    • Output of results available as html results or as json structure

• • Rich query syntax

The syntax is the same for mysql or for the zend engine. The same search string analyser is used. The syntax includes:

• • • Single (?) and multiple character (*) wildcard searches,
    • Boolean operators: AND, OR
    • The NOT operator
    • The grouping of terms using parentheses,
    • Single Terms and phrases by using quotes
  • Clear Default and help button
    • The clearing of the default text (Search here ...) is available with the clearDefault parameter
    • A customizable help button opens a window to provide an help on the search query syntax. The content of the help is fully customizable too.
  • Search in TVs
    • Sql queries have been optimized for search in TVs.
    • fields, withFields, withTvs and includeTvs parameters allow to specify where the search occurs and which are the information available as placeholder in the results.
    • With showExtract parameter you specify which fields are used to set the extract and how many extracts per result you want.
  • Posthook
    • Modify on flying the display of the results with a postHook snippet.
  • Faceted search
    • Filter the results with the Query Hook (a snippet). By declaring the "andCondtions" in the Query Hook you can set up and manage powerful filters.
    • Read the specific Query Hook documentation.
  • Several instances on the same page
    • Set as many search inputs & results as you want on the same page.
  • Dynamic content search with Zend
    • (See above). By default Mysql is the default engine mode.
    • To index the documents check indexation folder. It's secured by using modx's site id.
  • Search in custom packages
    • By using "joined" query hook declaration you can add joined resources to the default modResource
    • The "main" declaration allow to replace modResource by an another main resource.
  • Highlighting of results
    • Whatever the complexity of the search terms used, they are highlighted in the extract results
  •   Two paging types available
    • paging type 1 : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
    • paging type 2 : Next 6-10/26 Previous
    • paging type 3: 1 | 2 | 3 ... 10 | 11 | 12 ... 18 | 19 | 20
  •   Ajax mode
    • Show your effect between basic, showfade and slidefade
    • Replace the pagination by a "Show more result link", and display all the results on a landing page
    • Adjust the opacity of the window of results
    • LiveSearch mode
    • Customize easily your own load and close images
    • Faceted search available with Ajax mode

Usage/Installation Instructions

Install via package management

The zend search library should be installed before the first run of AdvSearch. Follow the installation steps of the AdvSearch documentation.

The technical pre-requisites for AdvSearch are:

• Revo 2.2 and upper
• UTF-8 charset
• php multi-bytes setting ON

AdvSearch uses JQuery 1.10.2 (provided with AdvSearch).