Quick search pre-populated results: give your visitors quick thread suggestions
 

Product video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUq4Z6R7xI

This product integrates with the quicksearch drop down box in NAVBAR; and suggests popular threads while the visitor is typing in search keywords.

Read INSTRUCTIONS.txt for installation instructions.

NOTICE: To fine-tune and configure "relevancy threshold" you must edit /includes/cron/autocomplete-generate.php file. Default installation assumes you have a big discussion forums and suggests only threads which have more than 1000 replies or 1000 views. Edit this number, the query looks like this:

*Awesome* gonna test :)

Thanks Michael, installing.

Dose it support other languges
like ARABIC languge ..
becouse many mods dosn't support it ^^

It is really awesome to see these modifications being released to the public. Now I just wish they were default in VB too.

Thanks.

Does this error mean I don't have Sed on my server or that I have something else disabled on my server?

I was up to the scheduled task part and ran it and got this error:

Warning: system() has been disabled for security reasons in [path]/includes/cron/autocomplete-generate.php on line 21

Warning: system() has been disabled for security reasons in [path]/includes/cron/autocomplete-generate.php on line 22
The file /home/****/***/autocomplete/data_1251514584.txt is not writable

thanks bro nice job

Great hack, thanks for releasing it. Im going to install this when I come back from vacation.

Hi, this looks fantastic --- except it is not working for me. I ran into no problems or errors, but my search box results are unchanged.

Can you take a look please?

http://forum.bigmiketrading.com

Mike

You probably need to check permissions on your autocomplete directory, make sure it is owned by the same user as your normal forum directory (ie: www-data), and set to 755.

Mike

Same here. Followed instructions to the letter. No errors at all. But search box is just as before.

I did lower the number from 1000 to reflect fewer replies and views on my site, but other than that. Just as per the instructions.

Any suggestions?

When I ran sheduled task manager, it appeared that. Help me plz

try to CHMOD it to 777

Maybe I placed the dirctory autocomplete in the wrong place, cause i don't understand much about this sentence
Plz tell me exactly where I should create this folder
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8076/capturet.jpg

goody.. will test it ASAP...

Thanks for this fine work. Seems to be working fine for me.

Question - the autosearch only seems to populate with matches/suggestions when I am in a sub-forum itself and not from Forum Home or any other place on the site. Is this the default behavior or is there something I can change to have it "autocomplete/suggest" topics from anywhere on the site?

Is the author going to provide support for this?

Mike

nah, it looks like it is currently not supported by the author, but I am still really glad they shared it. I am currently about to enable the function on my server that was disabled (due to the tightened security on my server)

I've followed word by word and enabled the system and exec execution in php.ini...unfortunately the cron job doesn't write anything to data.txt (although it creates the file with 0 byte).

We have our own dedicated servers but the hack doesn't work :(

Try chmodding the directory and/or the data file 777; it's either not writeable or the server does not have support for "sed".

any suggestions as to where autocomplete.php file is ?, not in either of the 2 download packages we have d/l

There is no autocomplete.php; there is autosearch.php, that goes into your forum root folder; then the cron job .php file goes into the /forumroot/includes/cron folder; that's it in terms of file uploads.

Your instructions mate not mine ;)

You are right, I am wrong. AUTOSEARCH.PHP; not AUTOCOMPLETE.PHP in the forums root. Sorry about that.

Hi Steve, did you ever try this out?

OK, got this working after uninstall/reinstall...

Apostrophes (') are not working for me in Safari/Firefox (pc & mac). I'm seeing question marks (?) instead. Also, and maybe this is how it's written for now; but it doesn't work in individual forum's search boxes (or sub-forums) for me, but only in the main forum (home) search box (navbar area)...is this as it should be for now? If so, a request...please add it's functionality everywhere!

I assume we can change highlight colors etc via CSS (the grey and white color scheme, navy blue highlight etc)? If so, where?

Other than that, it's very cool and works for me now. Thank you.

Hi ! Surely a dumb question but, what is the difference between your hack and the live search hack : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=search ??

Any feedback from members on this hack?

I added this hack to my forum and tweaked the SQL

Following will select only open threads.
Following will select threads that are not in forums 1,2,3,4,5.
Following will select threads that are only in forums 1,2,3,4,5.
Following will select only open threads that are not in forums 1,2,3,4,5.

Can this hack be changed so it populates the search box with popular thread titles and not take you directly to the thread?

For example, if someone searches for "Tickle me Elmo", I get a few suggestions. However, when they click on the suggestion, they are taken to very old threads. I would like the thread title to populate the search box and then a regular search is performed based on which auto suggested thread title that was selected.

I don't understand this:

the Do I change this, or leave it like that? Hopefully I can get a response, you've replied to me in the past..

See the number 1000?

This number means VIEWS/REPLIES need to be MORE THAN 1000 to get into the list. This works for BIG forums, but may not work on a small forum. If you have a small board you can change the 1000 to 100, and scale it even smaller to include all threads.

I changed it to "3" and tried it.. hmm, it's not working. I ran the scheduled task and it's saying on there, that it's not been run since january.

I'll try again tomorrow...

You can look at the file system to physically verify that the cron task actually created the text file for you, in the directory you specified. Also have to make sure Jquery is included.

Well, actually, now I've looked for data.txt (I'd already looked, the code referenced it, I assumed it'd create it) it's not there.

DIR is CHMODDED to 777.

Could it be that I don't have SED on my server? How common is it on Linux/Unix Distros? This feature would be sweet for my site..

But Wait, RSS feeds and anything to do with scheduled tasks aren't working either.. looks like I have a conflict in mods.

When you press RUN NOW button on that specific cron job it has to build the data file; if its not - sed is missing or your cron system is not working for some reason. This is a really simple mod.

hmm, ok, so now the data_1256681036.txt files have appeared in my CHMOD'd dir, but still not autocompleting.

I'll go over the installation process and re-do it all..

Oh, I see the problem. You are using the vBNexus product which also loads jquery. In your head template, remove the jquery line you've added for autocomplete product.

Remove this first line:

<script src="autocompfiles/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>

Ok,

I've got it creating the text file properly... now when I'm trying to use the search function nothing is happening.

I cut and paste the code in to the template, but still nothing.. it runs, but it does not work on the board.

:(

Same situation here.