Extension talk:Search Suggest

Last letter of search term is ignored
For some reason the content of the $term parameter of wfAjaxSearchSuggest is missing the last letter. For example if I enter 'wiki' in the search box, all articles containing 'wik' are returned. You can quickly confirm this by changing the last line of that function from return $html; to return $term; and then entering some search term.

Roberthaenel 18:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Works only with MW 1.10 ?
Hi, I wonder if this extension just works with MediaWiki 1.10 ? I'm using MW 1.11.1 and this extension works not.

Any idea?

--84.115.73.42 23:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Im using it in 1.11 right now. Are you using monobook as your skin?
 * if not
 * If you know where you want the results to go, you can change this in the javascript


 * var searchdiv = document.getElementById("searchBody");

Change searchBody to the id of the div you want the results to go into --Noverflow 12:37, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Spaces vs Underscores

 * I noticed that articles that have spaces in their names will require the underscore character. Without it the search is broken.

Bkazdan 17:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Fix
Just add a little bit of code to this line:

A little replace tag makes the replace as you type work with spaces.

Bkazdan 17:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thought I took care of that
Sorry, I thought I had taken care of that on the php level. Ill fix it. --Noverflow 12:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion: Autocomplete Replacement

 * It would be great if browser autocomplete could be disabled and traded for an overlaying version of your search tool.
 * Example: Google Suggest

Bkazdan 17:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Changes to .js & .css for overlay
On my installation I made a few changes to the .js file and .css for an overlay effect.

Original searchsuggest.js:

Modified searchsuggest.js:

Original style.css

Modified style.css

Bkazdan 18:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Current Code
This is the current code I am using right now. It has been further modified beyond the examples above.

Current searchsuggest.js

Current Style.css

Bkazdan 18:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)