Joomla Smart Search

any news on this ?

have a client that want me to show products with images as suggestion on search... can't see other way to do this than smart search.

Or is there a custom search module that can be used, just as normal module

indeed, 2 years have past, and still no feedback from hikashop staff.....i think HikaShop really needs public roadmap, ...desperately, because HikaShop team obviously takes feedback from its customers, but Hika team responds back with no real arguments, just promises.

Hi nicolas and thanx...

first thanx for the suggestion, but i cannot see how i should be able to do an ajax search dropdown where search suggestions will come from the filters.... but a small guide on how i can do this would be appriciated.

But that makes me needing to have two different search boxes on the page.. one for products and one for the rest.. this is not good site design.

Thanx for the replies..

Got me selves extensions.joomla.org/extensions/search-...ng/site-search/16893 and works great

Any update on SmartSearch integration?

I would like to put in my 2 cents worth to say that I really WANT (bordering on NEED) to have HikaShop work with SmartSearch.

I have a site that uses the SEARCH as the primary way to find data. It uses smart search for Joomla content, tags, web links, K2, EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss, and I want to add a HikaShop shopping cart. But, it will be very awkward to have the main prominent search NOT work for the shopping cart.

I suspect there is some technical difficulty to make Smart Search work with HikaShop but do hope it can be resolved.

Sean Carney

Polished Geek recently built a custom Smart Search plugin for HikaShop products, so I thought I would share some info here about why and what was built.

While I love the AJAX Live Search for HikaShop, this client really wanted the Smart Search behavior and to have a specific results page output. They are also using GTranslate* which is not compatible with the AJAX Live Search module. (GTranslate recommends using the Google Custom Search module instead, but that was not an acceptable option to this client either.)

HikaShop Smart Search plugin:
- Searches only in Product Name, Product Code [AKA Part #] & Product Description fields. (Client did not want to search custom fields)
- Indexes and searches all regular products AND all variants. (Does not search by brand, category, etc.)
- Searches product code with and without leading 0's
- Results include hyperlinked Product Name, Part Number for variants, a portion of the product description plus the product or variant image
- Result URLs are non-SEF if you hover over the product name, because the client required direct links to the variants. The most common search on this client's site is by part number so it's vital that the results link to the exact variant for each part.

The Smart Search described above was customized specifically for one client site, so we won't be publishing it for public use. However, if someone is interested in getting the code as-is or discussing a HikaShop Smart Search plugin for your site requirements, contact us and let's chat!