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how to add search box with dropdown menu

Hi. How can I add the search box with a dropdown menu (title, author, category, tags, date), as in this vanilla forum site?

Thanks.

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  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited January 2014

    closest thing is sphinxsearch plugin.

    http://vanillaforums.org/addon/sphinxsearch-plugin

    read the plugin instructions and description closely.

    and you might get something similar as well if you use the vanilla hosted plan.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • Thanks. I was hoping I could do it without a plugin :\

  • meshugymeshugy Musician/Hacker ✭✭

    my developer is going to implement a drop down search menu using sphinx. I'll let you know how it turns out...

  • mcu_hqmcu_hq yippie ki-yay ✭✭✭

    @meshugy please issue a pull request if you get that dropdown working and plan to release it open source. It would be a nice touch to the frontend.

  • meshugymeshugy Musician/Hacker ✭✭

    @mcu_hq will do!

  • exeticoexetico New
    edited March 2016

    @meshugy said:
    @mcu_hq will do!

    Hi @meshugy ! I know this is a bump, but how did it work out? I need a dropdown solution for the search-panel, so it's just a bit easier to use the search options from SphinxSearch.

    Will you be able to share your solution? Please let me know.

    Best Regards.

  • mcu_hqmcu_hq yippie ki-yay ✭✭✭

    @exetico I used a single button toggle for the search option in the "lite" version found here:
    https://github.com/mcuhq/SphinxSearchLite/blob/master/views/search/index.php

    Unfortunately, I don't have a picture to offer so you can see what it looks like, but I think it may be what you are looking for.

  • @mcu_hq Thanks for the explanation!

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