Search or Selection box

[Adrian Hughes]

Hi,

I am looking to include a search / selection box on my homepage that visitors can search for various kinds of local businesses.

Ideally, as the user starts to type, various options would appear in a 'drop down' box under the search field, and as they type more letters of the type of business they are looking for the options would decrease until there is only one left i.e. the one they have typed in.

I have looked at some of the tools, in Web Builder, but I cannot seem to get exactly what I need.

Would this feature be available through some kind of free/paid extension as I would be happy to purchase the facility if it is available somewhere.

Top marks for an excellent program and an even better forum !!!

Adrian Hughes
Swansea UK

[Pablo]

Maybe this will be helpful?
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/sitesearch.html

[BaconFries]

See the following and at the moment it is on sale.
https://www.phpjabbers.com/yellow-pages-script/

[Adrian Hughes]

Thanks guys for your replies....

I love the PHP BaconFries, but feel this might be a stretch for me to get up and working at the moment as I am looking for something a little more basic.

I did a little more searching and it seems what I am looking for is an 'Autocomplete' text box....

I see there is a jQuery UI / Bootstrap tool called 'Autocomplete' and this works great BUT I cannot see any way to add a URL link to each word I add in the list.

Still hoping I am missing the obvious...

Many thanks

Adrian

[Pablo]

The 'autocomplete' object was not designed as a navigation menu so there is no standard option to add URLs.
This will require a custom script.

[Adrian Hughes]

Hi Pablo,

Ive been using Web Builder since 2009 on V6.0 and have upgraded every time and seen the program develop into such an amazing piece of software !!

I know you cant please everyone..... but with V15 on the horizon, would it be a big ask to possible look into adding an AutoComplete navigational item, that could be used on a homepage of maybe a directory site?

Something along the lines of this:
https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/autocomplete/index

I'm sure what I see as a simple addition takes MANY hours of hard work and testing but I thought I'd give it a try...

Failing that, maybe someone could point me in the right direction into adding this function to a website I am trying to put together.

Many thanks

Adrian Hughes

[Pablo]

You are right, software development take a lot of time and adding new feature will require planning and research. So ,this feature will not be available in initial reelase of WB15.
But you can post suggestions in the 'suggestions' section of this form. if other users also find it useful then I will consider adding it to a future version.

[brn]

Is there a way to design a search box in WWB that searches a different website? We have two sites at my work (a marketing--created via WWB--and an eCommerce site--designed by someone else). I'd like the have a box on the marketing site that can search our eCommerce site.

[Pablo]

There is no standard solution for this, this will require a custom script.

[alan_sh]

Is there a way to design a search box in WWB that searches a different website? We have two sites at my work (a marketing--created via WWB--and an eCommerce site--designed by someone else). I'd like the have a box on the marketing site that can search our eCommerce site.

What about using the form wizard, selecting the 'site search Google' option and filling in the other web site there?

Alan