Searchsense

Description

A module suite providing extensible, configurable and fast typeahead ability for the core search. Also it might be used as an API.

Disclaimer

This module is in an early development stage, It is not intended to be used in production.

Installation

• Enable the module as usual.
• Goto admin/settings/search/autocomplete & configure your sense!

Develop a Searchsense Provider

• If required, Alter Searchsense's administration form by implementing hook_form_searchsense_admin_alter().
• If required, attach proper form validation and submission callbacks.
• Implement hook_searchsense() and return a provider-id-keyed array of keyed suggestions, if you want to extend its suggestions.
• Implement hook_searchsense_alter() if you're interested in modifying the suggestions.
• Checkout submodules for code examples.

API usage example

/**
 * Implements hook_searchsense().
 */
function nodesense_searchsense($a1 = '', $a2 = '', $limit = 10) {
  $matches = array();

  if ($a1 && ($query = variable_get('nodesense_query', FALSE))) {
    $results = db_query_range($query, $a1, 0, (int) $limit);
    while ($result = db_fetch_object($results)) {
      $matches[$result->type][$result->title] = check_plain($result->title);
    }
  }
  return array('nodesense' => $matches);
}

Recommended modules

It's recommended to use Searchsense alongside with:

• Synonym
• Fuzzy Search
• Custom Search
• Search Redirect
• High performance Javascript callback handler