RokAjaxSearch Module
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Created: 01 July 2009
Written by Super User
RokAjaxSearch is a truly powerful module that brings fantastic search functionality to Joomla, using the powerful and versatile javascript library, Mootools as well as full Google Search integration.
RokAjaxSearch offers AJAX powered real time search results for both your Joomla site content as well Google Search. There are various configuration options and parameters allowing you to enable not only Google web search, but Google Blog search, Google Image search, and Google Video search.
[span class=attention]In order to use the Google API functions (i.e. the ability to use Google search in your site for local and external searches), you must register your own API Key. Please see
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html. This in turn, must be entered in the API Key field in the module params, as shown in the diagram below.[/span]
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How do I configure RokAjaxSearch?
We will take a quick look at the parameters you will find when you install this module. There are 4 columns, parameters, options, demo and description. The parameter column lists each available setting for the module; options lists the available options to choose from; demo lists the options chosen on the demo and description outlines what the module does.
Parameter
Show Title
Enabled
Position
Module Class Suffix
Search page URL
Advanced Search page URL
Include default CSS
Theme Style
Searchphrase
Order
Limit
Results per page
Google Web Search
Google Blog Search
Google Images Search
Google Videos Search
Google Ajax Search API Key
Show Pagination
Google SafeSearch
Image Size to Search
Show Estimated
Hide div id(s)
Link to all results
Show Description
Include Category/Section
Show Read More
Options
Yes : No
Yes : No
List of position
Text Field
Text Field
Text Field
Yes : No
Blue : Light : Dark
Any : All : Exact Phrase
List of orders
5-50
3-50
Yes : No
Yes : No
Yes : No
Yes : No
Text Field
Yes : No
Strict : Moderate : Off
Small : Medium : Large : XL
Yes : No
Text Field
Yes : No
Yes : No
Yes : No
Yes : No
Demo
No
Yes
search
leave blank
Search
Advanced
Yes
Blue
Any Word
Newest First
10
3
Yes
No
Yes
No
API Key
Yes
Moderate
Medium
Yes
leave blank
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Description
Enable/Disable the module header
Enable/Disable the module
Choose the module position
Add an extra tag to the HTML
Link to the search page
Link to the Advanced search page
Set No to load template specific CSS
Choose between prebuilt themes
Search parameters
Order of results
Number of results
Number results per page
Use Google's web search
Use Google's blog search
Use Google's images search
Use Google's videos search
Insert Google API key
Show navigation in results
Google SafeSearch options
Google image sizes
Show estimates in results
Specify div IDs to be exempt from search
Link all search results
Show description with results
Include category/section in results
Show read more
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