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Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition
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Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

by Timothy John Plummer
July 2013
Beginner
458 pages
9h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a smart search plugin

The com_finder component, also known as smart search, is the new way of searching content that was introduced in Joomla! 2.5, and will eventually be the only core search component when com_search is phased out.

The smart search plugin for our component will also use the same /components/com_folio/helpers/route.php file that we created earlier for our com_search plugin to create links to our folio items in the search results, but the smart search works a bit differently.

Create the folder /plugins/finder/folio, and within that create folio.xml. Don't forget to add an index.html file in the new folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <extension version="3.1" type="plugin" group="finder" method="upgrade"> <name>plg_finder_folio</name> ...
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