Search Autocomplete

Overview

This module allows you to add autocomplete functionality to virtually any fields of a Drupal site. During the input, the field will be expanded and offers a list of suggestions before you start the search.
By default, the module integrates with search forms from the Drupal core Search and Search Block.

Optionnal: use views module to create your own suggestion set easily.
Optionnal: use transliteration module to build suggestions regardless of special characters (é, è, ç, etc...)

Features

• Autocomplete virtually any form in your website using id selector.
• Uses either static data, external or internal URL callback or an embeded view style to easily create your suggestions set.
• Forms to autocomplete are individually configurable
• Many css styles embedded, or just add your own one
• Using the embeded Views format (requires Views) any type of suggestions can be used:
  - words (any word in your site)
  - node titles
  - comment titles (if optional module comment enabled)
  - taxonomies (if optional module taxonomy enabled)

- ....

• Each type of suggestion is prefixable (to indicate your user what the suggestion stand for)
• Add your own suggestion set for even more convenience.
• Choice of the number of characters to be input before autocompletion suggestions appears.
• Choice of the number of suggestions to display.
• Support HTML entities in suggestions
• Support multi-field display in suggestions, such as the user name, user profil and user roles when suggesting users, node title, node comment number and node icon for node suggestions and so on.
• Support suggestion grouping using the views building mechanism.

Known issues

Please check for your module version if some not yet ported pending patches are available.

Credits

• Maintainer: Dominique CLAUSE (Miroslav). Hire me at www.freelance-drupal.com
• Sponsored by AxiomCafe: www.drupal-addict.com, www.axiomcafe.fr
• Backport 6.x-4.x have been sponsored by My-Risto: www.myristo.it