Whats the difference between this and Node Quick Finder? [#297726]

Comment #1

nicholasthompson

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commented 20 August 2008 at 16:45

Ok it looks like it does 2 things slightly differently...

The search is %term% rather than term% (in SQL speak). NQF uses the term% method which was a choice I made based on SQL indexes. A search starting in a wildcase cannot use indexes so on a large system could cause significant performance problems. Of course, it could also provide more "accurate" results (depending on definition of accuracy).
Searches on selectable fields - NQF simply searches the Node title.

I am basing the above on assumption because it doesn't appear to have any contributed code yet...

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Comment #2

danielb commented 21 August 2008 at 08:30

Version:

» 5.x-1.x-dev

Oh man....

I searched for "autocomplete drupal module" on google before I made this and your module did not come up (because you've written it 'auto-complete'), all I found was the ones that can autocomplete on words indexed by the search module.

You pretty much nailed it though about some extra options, and a search that can match a phrase even out of your node body at the cost of performance.

I may write about this on the page, but a merge is not out of the question if you are willing to add these features as optional extras to NQF. I don't really have time at the moment to contribute - but you may cannibalise and improve my code for NQF if you want.

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Comment #3

danielb commented 21 August 2008 at 09:00

OK mate I've added a link to NQF on the project page. I'm thinking of going down the route of adding more options for stuff to satisfy more applications, so if you have any feature requests over at NQF that you think would be better suited for my bloated monstrosity - send them over here!