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Low Search

Developer

Lodewijk Schutte - Low

3rd Party (Commercial)
Current Version: 2.0.1
Release Date: May 8, 2012

License Agreement

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$47.00
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Compatibility

Requirements

  • jQuery for the Control Panel

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Low Search is a simple yet powerful search tool that uses search collections based on channels to create an index, which is searched and returns channel entries. Per search collection, you can apply weight to each searchable field, adding importance to that field. Once an index is built, it is kept up to date automatically. Search results are sorted by relevance which is calculated through the use of MySQL’s native full-text functions.

Using custom search collections and indexes together with the full-text functions results in a number of useful features:

  • Sorting by relevance;
  • Excellent performance when searching;
  • Weighted searchable fields;
  • Multiple collections per channel, allowing for separate indexes for different uses (multi-language sites, for example);
  • Accent-insensitive;
  • Clean search indexes — html and punctuation are filtered out.

Other features include:

  • An option to search for any keyword, all keywords or exact match;
  • Optional loose ends search, which is similar to a fuzzy search;
  • Shareable search results by using an encrypted search query in the URI;
  • Full use of all {exp:channel:entries} parameters and variables in the search results tag;
  • In the search form, you can use any of the channel:entries tag parameters as input fields for very specific search results;
  • Limiting entries by a given range, based on channel fields;
  • Search log;
  • A fieldtype API so other developers can create custom search data for their field types;
  • A powerful Find and Replace utility.

Low Search Links

Hooks Used

If the add-on is an extension, and ties into ExpressionEngine's core files, it will use ExpressionEngine hooks. We are listing any hooks the add-on uses for developers to have an easier time locating other add-ons that they can reference for their own work.

  1. channel_entries_query_result
  2. entry_submission_end
  3. delete_entries_loop

This entry was last updated May 7, 2012, 10:32 pm.

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4 Reviews:

VosSavant 03.09.12

VosSavant
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I decided to go with this over Super Search mostly on price and Low’s reputation, and I was glad I did. Much easier to set up, less expensive, and (according to Low) faster.

I love that you can set up “collections,” which makes it easy to search by channel. Well done!

welshfusion 03.05.12

welshfusion
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I jut purchased this add-on, read the documentation and configured a great search feature that search multiple channels on a structure powered Multi-language website in under an hour- Thanks Low!

smaida 01.25.12

smaida
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Another amazing add-on from Low!  We are using Low Search on a site with ~30k entries and it’s fast and accurate.  Using the Low search form we built a “refine results” feature on the search results page with very little effort.

Superbia 11.17.11

Superbia
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Relevant search and awesome support from a great member of the EE community.