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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