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I started work on a search plugin a long time ago, but never finished as it was getting really tricky to code.

I wouldn't use some third party search thing, as they do not have access to the mySQL database so the results tend to be very miss leading. I wanted to build an ajax search plugin that would auto complete your searchers based on your tags, yet match the results of it against the body of your page parts.

With Frog 9.3 out I may start back up on a search plugin again.

ajcates, I think that better to make basic HTML plugin and then to exist Ajax futures.

Same here – I’ve written one that is semi functional. I am having problems dealing with and endless number of slugs in the url though. If the page part table had a ‘url’ row it would take 5 minutes. I’m busy doing other stuff now, if I get a chance to work on it again I’ll let you know…

Yeah sure – do you want to drop me an email to andrew at band-x.org with your email and I’ll send em across

This is a working solution for a basic sites earch facility.

Step 1. Add to header snippet:

code
<form action="/search.html" method="post">
<input type="text" name="search" id="search" value="<?php echo $_POST['search'];?>"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

Step 2. Create sitesearch snippet with filter set to none and body:

code
<?php
function snippet_sitesearch($parent){
	$childs = $parent->children();
	if (count($childs) > 0){		
		foreach ($childs as $child) {		 	
			$mysearch = $_POST['search'];
		 	if(strstr($mychild.$child->content(),$mysearch)){
				$out .= '<li><strong>'.$child->link().'</strong></li>';
			}
			$out .= snippet_sitesearch($child);
		} 	 	
	}
	$out = str_replace("<li><li>", "<li>", $out);
	$out = str_replace("</li></li>", "</li>", $out);	
	return $out;  
}
?>
<div id="results">
<?php echo snippet_sitesearch($this->find('/')); ?>
</div>

Step 3. Create hidden search page with filter set to none and body:

code
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
	$searchcriteria = $_POST['search'];
	if($searchcriteria != NULL){
		echo "<p>Search result for: <strong>" . $_POST['search'] . "</strong></p>";			
		echo "<ul>";
			$this->includeSnippet('sitesearch');
		echo "</ul>";
	}
}
?>

Summary:

This is not a plugin. It doesn’t have any fancy features, it just provides a small, lite and quick way of returning page results that contain the search term.

I hope it will be of use to others as it is, until something more advanced becomes available.

Just FYI for those “listening” in on this thread: I got Andy’s plugin and I’m seeing whether it can be integrated in the core distribution as a plugin since I think a search plugin is vital enough to distribute along with the core.

I also have to do some cleanup on it first :-p (no offense Andy)

hahah none taken – if you can get it to work URL’s properly then that would be great…

Hi, Marek.

Do you mean wrap each instance of the matched term, so for example a search for ‘hello’ which returns a title called ‘hello world’ would in fact return ‘<span class=“mark”>hello<span> world’ ?

@marek.kaczkowski, Maybe this help you.

@BlueFrog

Thanks for this quick search! :)
Is there way to show not just title but whole article entry?

Thanks!