Planet/EE Search Results 1.1 (1.6.x and 2.x)

This straight forward, easy-to-use module gives you greater control over your search results without having to add PHP scripts to your templates, modify the EE core files, or use the SQL query tags. We built this out of our own need to give our web designers control of the way result sets are rendered in the templates. This is a great investment if you want to quickly group, filter, and sort your results with more control than the built-in results function. Give it a try.

Key Features

  * Group result records by any field
  * Sort and control visibility of the grouped fields
  * Include XHTML in your Excerpts
  * Sort result records by any field
  * Highlight your search terms
  * Control the size of the excerpt displayed
  * Use custom fields in search results
  * Control the size of the pages
  * Sort in ascending and descending order
  * Use conditional tags within the search result tags

Also

  * Expanded upgrade term to lifetime
  * Single download for both EE codebases

You can check out a video demo, the docs, and download at Planet/EE.  The pric

Hiya,

Looks like a great little module you’ve created there, well done.

Just wondering if you’ve considered creating a 1.6.x version at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

P.S. Also a quick heads-up that when you go to your Data Integrator page it has the same title as the Form Builder page. These all look really interesting so can’t wait to see what you are cooking up with those two.

Mark,

Thanks.  Yes, we’re going to port the module to 1.6.X very shortly.

Thanks for spotting the site defect.  I’m sure there are a few of those still to find

Best,

Mark

trenchard - 08 March 2010 03:39 PM

Mark,

Thanks.  Yes, we’re going to port the module to 1.6.X very shortly.

Ah, excellent news

trenchard - 08 March 2010 03:39 PM

Thanks for spotting the site defect.  I’m sure there are a few of those still to find

No problem at all.

Looking forward to the 1.6.x version.

Best wishes,

Mark

BTW, when we roll the 1.6.x version this week we could add a couple of features or functions to both versions.  We have a lot of features in the funnel, but does anyone want to cast their vote on the next set of features to add?

How about some way of segmenting the sortby feature such that results could be put in a tabbed format, rather than a list. So for for example I could build a tab around news results and another around blog results, rather than a serial list of all results. Not east to describe, but I think you’ll get my drift.

Let me make sure we understand.

Add a way to generate group-based links/result-sets instead of returning the actual entries.

Example:
Search many channels via some search form
Result page groups by channel
Result page returns link/tabs to every channel (that can be style as tabs or some navigational links)
User clicks on link/tab that brings up the resulting entries for that channel.

Is that the use case you mean?

As an analogy see the tabbed box top right on http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

Not suggesting the module builds the tabs or anything like that, just maks tags available. In each tab would be the results as you have available already in the module.

Hope that’s clearer

Got it. That makes sense.  We’ll add that to the funnel of features.  I’ll see if we can work that in earlier than later.

Thanks very much and sorry for my crappy description.

I forgot to mention one feature we added just before go-live.  The search terms are easily styled.  The terms are surrounded by span tags with the class “terms”.

Hope that is a useful feature.

BTW, the 1.6.8 version is in final testing.

trenchard - 15 March 2010 04:53 AM

BTW, the 1.6.8 version is in final testing.

Excellent news

Best wishes,

Mark

Planet/EE Search Results 1.0 for 1.6.8 Released

We have finished “porting” the 2.x version to the 1.6.8 platform.  This version has all the same features as our 2.x version.

Key Features

• Group result records by any field
• Sort and control visibility of the grouped fields
• Sort result records by any field
• Search terms are tagged on the results page for easy styling
• Control the size of the excerpt displayed
• Control the size of the pages
• Sort in ascending and descending order
• Use conditional tags and all other weblog entries within the search result

You can check out a video demo, the user documentation, and download at Planet/EE.

BTW, we’re capturing features for the next release right now and will release an update in the next quarter.

Search Results 1.1 Released

We’re excited about our upgrade because we’ve been able to include a many requests from our users including 10 new features and we resolved all known defects. The 1.1 release adds a lot more control to the rendering of search result listings.

  * Expanded upgrade duration to lifetime!
  * Improved access to codebase with a single download including both 2.x and 1.6.x versions
  * Added “type” parameter to excerpt tag to allow XHTML within excerpt
  * Added “end” parameter to except tag to override the ellipse that follows the excerpt string
  * Added “custom” parameter to allow all custom fields within tag pair
  * Added “highlight” parameter to highlight search terms (follows search type selected by user)
  * Added “format” parameter to Group field for formatting date fields
  * Added “text” parameter to read_more tag to override the string used to link to entry
  * Added error trapping to send undefined properties to normal EE error handling
  * Added feature that prevents the ellipse from rendering if the returned excerpt is not truncated.
  * Changed the {auto_path} reference to the Search Results URL
  * Fixed referring page tag defect to stay accurate on every page of results
  * Fixed issue (found in 1.6.x only) where conditional statements did not work within the primary tag pair

Stop by our site and check out the video overview of the new features:

http://planet-ee.com/search.html

Version 1.1 will be sent to current users by the end of this week.  Email me if you need it earlier.