advanced search by type ahead

[zipurman]

On the first post on this typic there is a link ..
We had it on 1.0.8.16 , but it's not enabled now..but I can enable it, if you would like a look

If you enable it, I'll have a look. I did manage to get a copy of the code but it's old. There is a lot of code for something as simple as a product search type-ahead ... so I'd be interested in seeing all it can do.

[Omar_one]

On the first post on this typic there is a link ..
We had it on 1.0.8.16 , but it's not enabled now..but I can enable it, if you would like a look

If you enable it, I'll have a look. I did manage to get a copy of the code but it's old. There is a lot of code for something as simple as a product search type-ahead ... so I'd be interested in seeing all it can do.

you can check it out

[zipurman]

Thanks Omar and all who have PM'd me.

I will have a look at the code and get this working on latest Phoenix next week.

[zipurman]

I have started a re-code of the type-ahead here: https://phoenixaddons.com/demostore/

Currently it's a single hook of 300 lines. I plan on expanding it into a mod so it can be configured. What settings do you feel would be needed? I am releasing this one as a free mod, so any input is appreciated.

Zip

[burt]

@zipurman I dont know if this one does it, but I always thought it would be cool to sort the returned result by the position of the search string, eg;

canada
france
andorra
afghanistan

Let's say that the typeahead was "an"

the result would be

andorra
canada
france
afghanistan

I did have some effort at doing this a few years ago, but never really took it forward to somehting useful, here's the code I played with;

Code: Select all

SELECT 
  products_id, 
  products_name, 
  position("an" in products_name) as pos 
FROM 
  products_description
WHERE 
  products_name like '%an%'
ORDER BY pos

[zipurman]

@zipurman I dont know if this one does it, but I always thought it would be cool to sort the returned result by the position of the search string, eg ...

@burt thanks for the idea. I am matching several fields and also replacing spaces with % to allow wider matching. I love the idea and will do some logic to do what you suggest post SQL as I am already looping the data prior to showing it. Thanks for the idea!

[zipurman]

I have added some more functionality, use the link above to preview.

- Type-ahead suggestion if searching name or model
- Some style updates
- sorting by relevance as well as type ahead offering best match
- loose focus closes dropdown
- regain focus pops open dropdown if search is not empty
- retain upper/lower on highlights
- remove html from result to avoid highlights breaking code
- remove html from search matching (searching for strong etc)

Still a single hook file. Will move to a mod once I get it so all required features are covered. Haven't had much feedback ...

[Kofod95]

Looks good!

A suggestion could be to make it possible to include categories in the results. Potentially also info pages, but I don't know if that would be slowing things down too much and require a modularized adcanced_search_results (similar to the fuzzy-search supporters code) with modules to show these alternative hits.

//Daniel

[heatherbell]

use the link above to preview

Looks good!
also info pages,

Certainly looks and behaves well with some very cool features.
We would second the suggestion for including search to Categories Title/Categories Description and InfoPages Text.

[tessthepup]

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Looks good!
also info pages,

Certainly looks and behaves well with some very cool features.
We would second the suggestion for including search to Categories Title/Categories Description and InfoPages Text.

@zipurman
Hi Preston, I echo everything said above but from a pure aesthetic point of view either give the option of showing 'show all results' & 'advanced search top or bottom of the results.

I personally would have those links at the bottom so not to distract from the products.