SobiPro Extended Search - Module

Short description

NEW - Version 2.6Hot Auto-completion / auto-suggest

SobiPro has a Search Box and an Extended Search as a component task. To empower this feature, we publish a module to show this search form in any page position.

The module loads and shows the same component form. There's no need to-redefine the fields or the search options already defined at component level. So, you can show the Sobi Extended Search Form in any page, and submit to the component.

File: mod_sobiextsearch.zip
Price: USD 19.99

How it works: the module loads SobiPro to extract the extended search form. Since there's no API to generate the form (or call the SobiPro component within a context with an already-generated component) the module loads the extended form with an external HTTP connection, and parses the output to extract the form and fields.

SobiPro Plugin+ Search Mode

As a second power mode, we have added the feature to submit the form to the general Global Joomla Search. So you can show the Extended Search Form, and submit the query to Joomla general search. In this way, you can combine the Sobi Extended Form with any search plugin. If you have the SobiPro Search Plugin+ (Plus), the Extended Form can search into any section/catalog, with full text search, or into Joomla content.

The SobiPro Plugin+ Search Mode (Joomla Search) is required as support for:

Category Restriction
Empty Searches (no keywords)

Please, check it here in the demo site, where you can find the classic SobiPro business directory.

Installation & Upgrading

Download the last version of the module and install it using the default install procedure of Joomla!.

Required: Joomla! 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x, or 2.5.x.

Sample Configuration

Customer Showcase

Category Navigator

The search module customized to show only the 3-Level categories and two select inputs.

advanced-customization1

Extended Module integrated with Joomla Search

A Joomla search page with the extended search module on top to show all search option, and the list of associated results. The standard simple Joomla search form is hidden.

Form Customization

The form includes all SobiPro search fields. As the module does not include any fixed style, it applies the general template style.

If you need to customize the form, we've identified each label, field, and row. In this was, it can be freely customized with CSS Style. To show an example, this is a customer's customization:

CSS Customization

To hide some rows

.XTSPSearchCell1, .XTSPSearchCell2 {



   display: none;

}

To add a margin

#XTjooSearchForm {



   margin: 8px;

}

Additional Form Customization

To align a field area on the right side

.XTSPSearchCell1, .XTSPSearchCell3, .XTSPSearchCell4 {



   display: inline-block;
   margin-right: 8px;
   width: 45%;

}

Configuration

These are the parameters of the module:

Search Mode: SobiPro Native Search / Joomla Search
Section Id
Category List Mode: 1-Level / 2-Level / 3-Level
Categories Order
Category List Filter
Box Width
Box Text
Search Button: No / Yes
Search Button Image: No/Yes
Button Text
OpenSearch autodiscovery: No/Yes
OpenSearch title
Set ItemID
Allow Empty Search Box
Module Class Suffix
Caching
Cache Time
Autocomplete, It works only in the search box. It does not complete other fields, and only fills the field with information pulled from SobiPro.

New Versions & Support

All paid extensions include:

3-Month New Version Membership / Customer Area
Forum Support

Updates

Updates in 2.6.1

Minor Fix, to remove notices on SobiPro pages

Updates in 2.6.0

Big Feature, Auto-complete/auto-suggest function
Optimization, same JQuery library

Updates in 2.5.3

Minor Fix, to remove undefined variable notice.

Updates in 2.5.2

Fix: 1-Level category fixed.

Updates in 2.5.1

Feature: Cyrilic script Support.
Feature: No Extended Form support.

Updates in 2.5.0

Feature: Full new load component engine, based on plugin_component, Reumer.net.

Updates in 2.2.2

Feature: Multilanguage Support
Feature: Text Processing Optimization
Feature: FOLLOWLOCATION, opendir / safe_moe detection improvement

Updates in 2.2.1

Feature: EMPTY FORM message improvement
Feature: FOLLOWLOCATION, opendir detection improvement

Updates in 2.2.0

Feature: Remember search values (2nd part)
Bug: FOLLOWLOCATION, opendir detection

Updates in 2.1.0

Feature: 3-Level / Chained Select Box
Feature: Remember search values
Bug: FOLLOWLOCATION, safe mode detection

Updates in 2.0.0

Feature: NEW Category List Mode, and parameters

Updates in 1.0.4

Feature: FOLLOWLOCATION added, to avoid HTTP/1.1 303

Updates in 1.0.3

Bug: J1.5 Compatibility Fix (getUpperLimitSearchWord)

Updates in 1.0.2

Feature: Debug information and error messages improvement.

Updates in 1.0.1

Bug: Fix to the image button

Updates in 1.0

initial release.

Troubleshooting

Search Form and no results: Please check if the form is beign filled with your selected options, and your page has no Javascript Errors.. If not, you might have Javascript errors in your page, preventing regular form execution.
ERROR: EMPTY FORM: If your site has the public connections restricted (forbidden), you got this message about an empty form. To solve the issue, please enable the access. If you have any question, please, post your question in the following Forum thread.