I've just committed another module - Node Quick Find. That brings my projects to a nice round 10!
This module is a pretty basic one though. It simply provides a block which has an autocomplete field. This field is linked to the Node Title field. You start typing the Node Title and it will start suggesting possible nodes you might be interested in - sort of like a primitive search box.
It features primitive configuration, allowing an administrator to easil configure the title of the prompt, the size and the types of nodes returned in the autocomplete list (eg, you may want to limit the list to blogs only).
This may be useful for a site or it may not. For example, it probably wouldn't benefit a blog so much as the user would need to know the title of the blog entry they're looking for. I am using it for a suite of sites I'm developing for Dark Basic Pro. The site it was originally intended for is the API, however I've enabled it for 2 of the other 3 (Codebase and Challenges).
It's probably around about this point that someone will point out that it's been done before. If it has then I was clearly typing the wrong keywords into Google and Drupal Search!
I'm also keen to extend the features of this module so feature requests and suggestions are welcome.
Someone's gotta do it
I've built a module called Teleport that does a similar thing but searches more stuff. It's meant to be more of an administrative tool, so there's not a block that can be used by general users.
So the point is not so much "It's been done before" but more "feel free to look through the code and take what you want." :)
Ahhh!
Very interesting idea! Clearly, you're a Mac user ;-)
Thanks for the pointer. Looks a nice module!
Thoughts...
Nick, this functionality is useful, but may I present you with another opportunity to make it more useful to the community (ie, me (kidding)).
When I set my own site up, I originally intended to implement the functionality included within the search_autocomplete module, but it actually transpires that this module searches for indexed keywords, and not node titles.
What would be really useful is if you could implement the functionality included here into the s_a module, perhaps as an option? Then that module would be useful as a user-facing one, to find nodes "they know exist" on sites they've been to before.
Any thoughts etc obviously just ping me, maybe I can help out or something.
Nik