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| Joomla Extension of the Month - February 08 |
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| Monday, 11 February 2008 | |
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You can see the component and module in action on the right-hand side of this site or in component form.
"Advanced Search" not a huge step foward because it piggy-backs on Joomla's existing search functionality, but its a useful and stable component that your users will find much better than the default Joomla search.
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  written by Joseph LeBlanc, February 11, 2008
It's also worth mentioning this extension allows you to set the minimum search length as well (at least, according to the website). Many users (Japanese and Chinese, in particular) have needed this for a while.
 written by Steve Burge, February 13, 2008
Thanks Joe
That is indeed a useful extra feature. I lived in Japan for several years and so should have caught that one. written by Vince1, February 21, 2008
Cannot easily tell if this is for Joomla 1 or 1.5.
Also "Access to this content requires a subscription." :-( written by Jasonf, February 29, 2008
You can make a few changes in the components/com_search/search.php
You can't enter a query of more than 20 characters - Its easy you can.. look in the file for // limit searchword to 20 characters then change this if ( strlen( $searchword ) > 20 ) to a higher number For Its hard to customize so that results appear in the order you desire - 2 ways to make it easier look for $ordering = mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'ordering', 'newest'); Change newest to popular or what ever else is listed in the php file You can also customize the search by changing this line $searchphrase = mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'searchphrase', 'any' ); Change any to all or exact.. I make these simply changes on all my joomla 1.0 site. Enjoy  Write comment
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Our Extension of the Month for 2008 is a very worthy winner, because it overcomes several important limitations in Joomla's core. Joomla's default search component has several issues:
