It is very close. Except, the built in wgAjaxSearch wipes out the entire content of a page when you start to type. The page content does not come back until you actually do a complete search, and reload the page.
This extension does the same search, except it places the results in a non obtrusive place, IE below the the search. The search also searches the entire name of articles, not just the beginning. So... searching for foam will return both foam-core and working with foam-core.
Other places have a very similar search, but it uses Yahoo's javascript library and is 200k of code.
-Adam
On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:41 AM, Jack Eapen C wrote:
Hi All,
I'm a little bit confused...
What this extension is doing other than $wgAjaxSearch=true in localsetting.php is doing?
I think if we put that in localsetting.php, it does the same thing as of this extension.. Or am I mistaken?
Regards,
Jack Eapen
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Adam Meyer Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 6:21 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ajax Search Suggest (my first extension)
I just updated the code. it should work out of the box now.
I added configuration to it in the php file. You can select the number of results that come back. You can select to search in the entire article name (default), or just in the beginning of the name.
The results are now links to the articles, so you can just click on them.
As for the Javascript. I trimmed it down, and: Required 2 characters before search is done. (max 10 incase something leans on the keyboard) Enables a memory system so it will not search if the last search was the same.
-Adam
On Mar 1, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Adam Meyer wrote:
Thank you for the changes! I added some more functionality to it this morning. Im going to change
the code around and upload it later today.
On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
I made the changes on the code at mediawiki.org.
In general, I might wait to trigger the search until more characters have been entered. 1 seems like overkill; how useful will the suggestions be when you type 'e'?
In Firefox, the browser's autocomplete tries to run, and sits on top of what the extension is doing. I wonder if that can be suppressed.
Jim
On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
function wfAjaxSetSearchSuggestHeaders($outputPage) {
global $wgJsMimeType, $wgStylePath,$wgScriptPath;
$outputPage->addLink( array( 'rel' => 'stylesheet', 'type' => 'text/css','href' => $wgScriptPath.'/extensions/searchsuggest/style.css' ) );
$outputPage->addScript( "<script type="{$wgJsMimeType}"
src="$wgScriptPath/extensions/searchsuggest/searchsuggest.js ">"."</ script>\n"); $outputPage->addScript( "<script type="{$wgJsMimeType} ">hookEvent("load", ss_ajax_onload);</script>\n" ); }
On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
I'm having similar problems. I think there's a path problem in setting the header, and the js file isn't loading. Playing with it now.
Jim
On Mar 1, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Adam Meyer wrote:
Hmmm... Im not sure why that is. In the javascript file, do you see the ss_ajax_onload function??
-Adam
On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Grietinus Koops wrote:
> Adam, > Excellent! I only don't get it working for some reason... > There's an error "ss_ajax_onload is not defined" if I look in > the
> script errors... Any idea? I use MW1.10 Grietinus > > 2008/3/1, Adam Meyer meyer7@mindspring.com: >> >> I just finished my first extension. It needs work I know, but >> perhaps anyone looking for something like this can use it and >> let me know what it needs. >> >> It is a very lightweight search suggestion. (under 5k). When >> typing into the search box, articles containing those letters >> or
>> word will be displayed under the search bar. >> >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Search_Suggest >> >> Thank you to everyone who helped make this work. >> If you would like to help make this better, I would really love >> any help. >> I would like to be able to select what you want to choose using >> the arrow keys. >> >> Also, I could easily make the suggestions links so anyone could >> just click on them. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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