heimrichhannot/contao-search_plus

Extend the contao core search, to achieve more features like pdf search.

Search Plus

Notice: This bundle is not activly maintained anymore! Please refere to out Search Bundle for contao 4 and new features!, _(*1)

Extend the contao core search, to achieve more features like pdf search., _(*2)

Features

• pdf search
• filter pages for search frontend module
• Support Access-Control-Allow-Origin within be_rebuild_index.html5

Dependencies

Don't worry, install via composer and all dependencies will be resolved like magic., _(*3)

• [smalot/pdfparser] (https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser)

PDF Search

• index pdf files that are referenced inside searched pages and must be locally (contao filesystem) stored
• parse pdf files with smalot/pdfparser
• make usage of meta information from tl_files to provide better file titles (consider language too)
• group the results in the result list
• select the search order (show pages first, show files first or by relenvance)

Usage

Install

Add following line to your composer.json required section:, _(*4)

"heimrichhannot/contao-search_plus" : "^1.0"

You can also add the package via commandline:, _(*5)

composer require heimrichhannot/contao-search_plus

Templates

~~You need to add two templates: mod_search_simple and mod_search_advanced. In your mod_search template you need to add <?php echo $this->form ?> to output the correct search form template.~~ No needed anymore for contao 4.x from version 1.2., _(*6)

Settings

You can disable PDF search on the Contao setting page. If enabled, an option to set the maximum pdf size to parse, is given., _(*7)

Credits

The contao 4.x compatibility changes were sponsored by fanthomas communications., _(*8)