better search function

[jywarren]

Barnraising vs Barn raising, autocompletion, just better results?

[adamdgriffith]

request ability to search within just the plots archive

[jywarren]

Good call. Maybe this can be part of the archive front page redesign: https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/54

You can already narrow to only searching maps, but a dedicated box for that on the map page would be nice:

[jywarren]

OK, i installed search_autocomplete, the drupal module. It looks great and has namespacing (like you can type "map: blabla" to search only within maps.

However it's having some trouble with our version of jQuery (1.7.x):

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'autocomplete'

I tried dropping in the most recent jquery.autocomplete.js but the one in the module is not really a vanilla copy, it's modified for use with Drupal. I think if we can recode the top 16 lines of that file, (/sites/all/modules/search_autocomplete/js/jquery.autocomplete.js), we could pull this off.

Drupal.behaviors.search_autocomplete = function(context) {
        $.each(Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete, function(key, value) {
                $(Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].selector + ' input:first').filter(':not(.search_autocomplete_processed)').addClass('search_autocomplete_processed').autocomplete(
                   Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].url, {
                           dataType: "json",
                           cacheLength : 20,
                           matchContains: true,
                           minChars: Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].minChars,
                           selectFirst: false,
                           max: Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].max_sug
                   }
                 ).result(function () {
      $(this).submit();
    });
  });
};

[jywarren]

Hmm, i just removed the trailing ".result(function..." and now it is almost working... but the following AJAX request fails. Something wrong with url aliasing?

http://publiclaboratory.org/search_autocomplete/3/autocomplete?q=camera&limit=10

[jywarren]

OK, here is the problem. The correct URL is:

http://publiclaboratory.org/search_autocomplete/3/autocomplete/camera&limit=10

not

http://publiclaboratory.org/search_autocomplete/3/autocomplete?q=camera&limit=10

Now i need to make sure that form javascript goes to the correct url

[jywarren]

docs say: * If options.queryParamName === false, append query to url instead of using a GET parameter

https://raw.github.com/dyve/jquery-autocomplete/master/src/jquery.autocomplete.js

[jywarren]

sweet! it's working but now the returned query is not parseable by search_autocomplete, since probably the new jquery.autocomplete expects a new and different format for search results.

Now it's even coming back as json, without erroring. I updated the jquery.autocomplete.js options, and all seem to be OK, it just doesn't actually display the response now:

                       queryParamName: false,
                       remoteDataType: "json",
                       useCache: true,
                       maxCacheLength : 20,
                       matchInside: true,
                       minChars: Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].minChars,
                       selectFirst: false,
                       maxItemsToShow: Drupal.settings.search_autocomplete[key].max_sug