A sort of silly extension, but for my project with 2000+ entries this seemed to work the best.  Enabling this adds a “Livesearch” field to the top of the admin pages.  Typing in there will select entries and comments containing the inputted text.  Give it a whirl and let me know how it works.

Mark, I hope you’ll add your extensions and modules to the lists on the wiki:

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Extensions
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Modules

Thanks for sharing these with us. =)

Just a few notes

1) This is marvellous, thank you.
2) The settings tab seems to want to work, but there is no lang file in the zip - so clicking it brings up a missing language file error
3) Searching for “Other’s” doesn’t work - though I have a post with that as part of the title, that it does find if I use a different keyword.  Apostrophe issue?
4) Gettng Notice: Undefined index: S in .. /ext.livesearch.php on line 101

I love this, thank you.

I updated the extension to fix those few bugs, as well as removed the settings=‘y’ call.  See first post for the most up to date extension.

One final update to fix a small formatting bug in IE, see first post for updated extension.

Sorry for disturbing, but I’ve downloaded your extension and installed it into my EE1.5.1. And there’s no Livesearch field anywhere as well as any setting link :(
(I’ve attached a screenshot). And Documentation links leads to http://www.hcphilly.com which is a blank page :(

Can you please help me?

Thank you!

1. There should not be settings.  I accidently left them on in the first release, then turned them off in a later version.
2. This may be because your not using English.  I believe I hardcoded in an English word to look for, and when it’s not there it doesn’t show up.  I will check this out and post back later today.

Mark Huot, switching to English really helps, thank you! But my users would like to keep Russian as a system language - is it possible to get Livesearch form without switching back to English?

Alright, 1.0.4 should fix any language problems.  Find it at the top of the thread.

It now appears indeed, thank you. But I guess I does not work as intended - I enter a word (I’m sure there is such an entry) and there’s no result :(

Does the word have any foreign characters in it?  Something like é, å, ô?  Are you looking for the entry by title?  or a custom field?

It does not work with either russian or english words.
I enter, for example, American (there.s an entry with a title starting with “American Express’) and just nothing happens.

Ok, here are some screenshots

1. Nothing is entered into the Livesearch form
2. There’s an entry with a title starting with Morgan Stanley. See this blue line? Looks like something is trying to happen but to no avail.
3. There’s an entry with a title including (but not startin with) American Express. No blue line.

A small problem with some final characters.

Please look at Entry No. 9 and the Title (compare them).

The Title is correct. But LS shows a strange symbol at the end.

1.0.4

sigork - 02 December 2006 04:25 AM

A small problem with some final characters.

Please look at Entry No. 9 and the Title (compare them).

The Title is correct. But LS shows a strange symbol at the end.

1.0.4

А у меня с русским языком вообще не работает :(

Alright version 1.0.5 should fix a few of these bugs.  Please let me know what still remains.  Also do you have Auto Convert High ASCII turned “On” or “Off”?  You can find it here: CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Global Weblog Preferences

The picture is w/o changes.

Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities : No

sigork, have you tried version 1.0.5?

yes, 1.0.5 was used, the same picture (like in a previous post of mine above, with the strange symbol at the end in some entries).