New generation of PixSearch (development release)

We are pleased to announce a new generation of PixSearch.

New features:
- It´s faster.
- Shows number of search results.
- Pagination.
- Dissapears if you click outside the box.
- Mootools requirement is removed, so no more problems with JQuery.
- It grabs the search result from Joomla core template Rhuk Milkyway (be sure it´s installed), no more problems with template overrides in your template.
- Possibility to style more specific.

New PixSearch version released (v 0.5.0)

After 2 years we finally managed to pull ourselves together and release a new PixSearch version.

You can download the new version here.

The new version fixes most issues that repeatedly come up in the forum and adds a few nice little extra features.

Here's the release notes...

• General refactoring: We went trough the whole code and fixed some "ugly" parts
• New function: Status icon - A small icon to the right of the searchbox that displays a rotating wheel during the search. (Can be turned off in the module paramters)
• New function: The search word is now highlighted in the search result text. Should make it easier to quickly scan trough the search results.
• New function: PixSearch now grabs the itemid of the page from where the search has been initiated and passes it on to the search result page. This means that there is no more loss of module positions if "com_search" hasn't been connected to a menu.. As a side effect this also makes it possible to use PixSearch on websites that use more then one template.
• New function:  New module parameter "Manual Itemid". With this parameter you can pass on a hardcoded Itemid to the search result page. With this you can get the module positions of a certain part of your page on the search results page without having to connect com_search to a menu.
• Bug fix: We are no longer using the deprecated "index2.php" function for fetching the results from com_search. This should prevent PixSearch from breaking when the parameter "Add suffix to URLs" is activated in the global configuration.
• Bugfix: Normally PixSearch should always include the mootools.js library from the Joomla! core but we have been using some code for this which broke on certain pages for unknown reasons. This is now fixed and mootools.js should always be included automatically.

There is still two common issues left that can break PixSearch:

• A web site that includes the Mootools 1.2 library
• Template overrides on com_search

We are now working on a complete refactoring of PixSearch which will fix those two issues and adds lots of other functionality. Keep an eye out for "PixSearch NG".

We promise it won't take two years for the next update.

//Team Pixpro

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