Re: PHP-WEBMASTER: /web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/

Daniel Burka made an example autocomplete popup box very similar to www.apple.com one ( i can't find it right now) If you see the apple one it has categories like you mentioned Philip. How about, if the user enters a term and there are 0 results, we do a "recommended" ajax lookup to obtain the recommended items for that search term, and if there are recommendations then we display them in a new section just like on apple.com Comments? :) Cheers. Paul Dragoonis. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Stewart Lord wrote: > > > On 17-Mar-10, at 12:36 PM, Philip Olson wrote: > >> This route sounds good. However, has anyone put much thought into how > all of this will integrate with other types of site searches? Like the > general site search, and full documentation search. No clear ideas jump out > at me, yet. > > > > Hi Philip, > > > > When you say "integrate with other types of site searches", are you > talking about doing auto-suggest for the general site search and full doc > search? Auto-suggest for these would be harder and the Y! search was a bit > slow as I recall. Do you think it's needed? > > Not sure about that, but the main question is how will people choose? Let's > say I want to search the entire site, how will I choose this option? A > select box to the right? Or will all searches essentially become a mashup > (eventually, maybe after a space is entered?) when done via the quick search > in the site header? I'd prefer something along those lines, but something to > think about. > > And while on the topic, let's officially keep track (we sorta do, > currently) of searched terms and determine where someone might want to go. I > did this in error.inc but it's not ideal (has only one option). So let's say > someone searches for "$_SERVER", we'd have our favorite options for > "$_SERVER" and suggest to them (as "recommended"?) near the top. Also, > something to think about. Our 404 handler would also use this information. > > Regards, > Philip > >