Features, Screenshots & Demo

 

The Advanced Search extension suite brings professional search features to the Joomla! platform for the first time. Advanced Search extends the power of the default Joomla search engine and gives you the ability to narrow your search results to specific content types such as categories, articles, events, etc...

Features

• Content-specific search result filtering
• Language-specific search result filtering (Joomfish-enabled sites only)
• Dynamic detection/usage of searchable content types
• SEO/SEF ready with built-in support for sh404sef
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional, W3C CSS Valid
• Customizable display of searchable content types using CSS styles
• Custom search plugins for menu items and authors
• Specify search defaults such as minimum/maximum search string length and default search type (i.e. exact phrase)
• GNU GPL licensed extensions

The real power of Advanced Search lies in it's ability to dynamicly accommodate new content types (called 'search mambots' or 'search plugins') as they become available. Once a new search mambot/plugin is installed and published it is immediatley detected and utilized by Advanced Search. In addition, Advanced Search is a seperate component from the default Joomla! search engine and thus no 'hacking' is required for its use (unlike other customized search solutions for Joomla!).

Included Extensions

• Core Component - search engine application
• Search Module - standard search module (specific mambots can be pre-selected in the module parameters)
• Search Selector Module - search module allow users to quickly search one mambot or all mambots using a drop-down menu of all available mambots
• Menu Search Mambot - search mambot allowing the names of menu items to be searched
• Author Search Mambot - search mambot allowing author names to be searched

Demo

Advanced Search is running right now on this web site, simply follow the Advanced Search link in the Home menu above.

In addition to showcasing the component, the Search Selector module is loaded on the left column (labelled 'Advanced Search').

The Search module is positioned just below the search selector module and is labelled 'Forum Search'. In this case, the module is configured to search just the forum. You can see another copy of this search module on the JCal Client/Pro demo page (here it is labelled 'Find an Event' and is configured to search just the events).

 

Screenshots

Component Backend

Search module parameters

Search Selector module parameters

Menu Search mambot parameters