Great! Thank you Derek, Works as advertised.

Woo Hoo!!  Thanks Derek!

Any plan to bring this ability to the front end so users can search live too?

I’m not sure if anyone is interested in this but I installed this great extensions tonight but I noticed that it was still using the original classic admin colour scheme.

If anyone likes things to look perfect and intergrated here is some updated css code to give it the fresh new look we’re used to with the adminCP.

Around line 432 in the extensions file you will see the original style information.

Change with this:

Save and you should be good to go!

Thanks to Mark for the extensions and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain for the great looking AdminCP

thanks, danethomas.  I’ve updated the extension to the new look and feel based on your code.  the only thing i changed was making the selected color green to call it out a little more.

Thanks Mark!

I noticed some comments earlier in the thread about making it so that esc closes the dropdown - or as i thought maybe just a subtle x to close the box would be nice. I know that removing the contents of the search removed the box but something that can be a little fiddly (yes I know only 0.4 of a second more).

Actually probably more intuiative would just be for a click outside of the dropdown removes it - similar to the Google Suggest (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) dropdown list.

@danethomas the new version should now remove the list on blur and reappear on focus again.

Oh thats just brilliant - looks good and is a lot snappier to use now.

Many thanks!

great, glad it worked out!

Hi Mark!

Looking at all your plugin’s…. amazing! Thank you for your contribution!

I have one request though… is there any way to implement this/a Live Search on the FRONT end? Perhaps a way to filter weblogs and catagories as well. That would be awesome if it’s not too troublesome!

Thank you!

I’ve used this on just about every site I’ve done - but on the last few it hasn’t worked at all and I’d been utterly nonplussed - when I realized that it’s because I’ve started to mask access to the control panel on my most recent builds.

I’ll take a look under the hood to see if there is any quick fix for that (that I can handle myself, we’ll see…), but I thought I’d bring it to your attention that this doesn’t seem to be working when masking access to the control panel.

@mdesign - Whoops, that should be fixed now (v1.0.8)....assuming your control panel is at the root of your server, /admin, /system, /cp or something like that.

Thanks, Mark, that was fast. I’ll give it a go.

@mdesign - Excellent, let me know how everything goes.  It was actually a relatively simple fix.  For my own reference though, what usually causes you to mask the CP.  I think I’m just not understanding why people need this feature?

For the record, this worked - so thanks for the update.

I just started doing this for clients. I’m not sure how much added security it is, but it’s certainly a selling point to some of the more paranoid clients. The job I have now is for a very good sized company and they’re quite concerned about security. It’s easy enough to do, so I thought I’d try it out.

Huh, so I guess masking the CP means potential hackers don’t know the location of /system/core/core.system.php even if they know your login location is /admin.php.  Makes sense, thanks!

Mark, I’ve updated to 1.08 and suggestion menu not shown. 1.07 works still perfectly.

And here is the little feature request: could you create language part of the extension for possibility localize extension to native languages?

@Gabriel - Strange.  Would you be able to enlighten me with the location to your system folder?  Is it something like ‘/system’ or deeper like ‘/ee/admin’?  Also is ‘system_folder’ correctly set in your system/config.php file? I can probably add localization with the next update as there’s only three words that need to be localized, I think.