Posted by Miroslav Talenberg on October 30, 2007 at 10:20pm
Overview
This module allows you to add autocomplete functionality to the search fields of a Drupal site. During the input, the field will be expanded and offer a list of suggestions before you start the search.
The module integrates with search forms from the Drupal core Search.
Features
This module offers similar behaviors to versions D5, D6 and D7.
New in v1.0
- Offers integration with Search from Drupal core. Autocompletion can be set to:
- Search Page content search form
- Search Block form
- Theme Search Form (no more existing in Drupal 7) - Suggestions come from the search_index table. In other words, it can be any word appearing in your content.
- Autocompletion is made thought Drupal Form API capacities (misc/autocomplete.js), in other words it enables the Drupal core autocompletion.
- Choice of the number of characters to be input before autocompletion suggestions appears.
- Choice of the number of suggestions to display.
- Suggestions can be sorted:
- naturally (none)
- alphabetically
- by keyword score
- by keyword relevancy
New in v2.0
- Autocomplete potentially any form in your website using id selector.
- Use a standalone jquery plugin for autocompletion providing more settings, such as coloration, highlighting, caching, etc...
- Forms to autocomplete are individually configurable
- More types of suggestions to display are available:
- words (any word in your site)
- node titles
- comment titles (if optional module comment enabled)
- taxonomies (if optional module taxonomy enabled) - Each type of suggestion is prefixable (to indicate your user what the suggestion stand for)
- Add your own suggestion type for even more convenience.
Known issues
Please check for your module version if some not yet ported pending patches are available.
Credits
- Miroslav Talenberg: maintainer since 25-jun-2011.
Sponsored by AxiomCafe: www.axiomcafe.fr
Notes
The installation and basic settings are quite straight forward. Until full documentation is published, please refer to the README.txt file.
#D8CX: I (Miroslav) pledge that Search Autocomplete will have a full Drupal 8 release on the day that Drupal 8 is released.
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Module categories: Search
- Reported installs: 826 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Last modified: February 6, 2012
