Download
This extension is totally free! To download this extension, you need to sign up for free membership to get privilege to download this extension.
After signing up, login to you account, go to download area where you can download the package within 2 clicks
installation
Once you have JV Ajax Search downloaded on your computer, navigate to Extensions >> Extension Manager to install JV Ajax Search.
If the package has its name as unzip_first.zip. Please extract the package first.
You can install the extensions by 3 ways, but I am choosing the first one - "Upload Package file", this is the quickest way to install extension on Joomla!,
Browse the package you downloaded, then click Upload & Install. JV Ajax Search installation is now sucessfully completed.
In case you are not familiar with extension installation or want to find out more about 3 ways of installation on both Joomla 2.5 and 3x, view the following link :
Enable the module
This is a very important section to make sure the module displayed in front-end.
To successfully enable the module, first, navigate to Extensions >> Module Manager >> JV Ajax Search
Then do 3 must pass things:
- Publish the module.
- Select a position for the module.
- Assign the module to specific page(s)/menu item(s)
Select tab Menu Assignment in the bar below the module title. In this tab, there for assign the module: On all pages, No pages, Only the pages selected, On all pages except those selected.
New installed module will be assigned on No pages by default, so you need to assign the module to specific pages/menu items.
Configuration
Also in the backend, go to Extension >> Module Manager >> JV Ajax Search. You will see 6 tabs: Module, Menu Assignment, Template Search Options Module Permissions, Template Result Options, Advanced. The tab Module and Menu Assignment were mentioned when enabling the module. Now we will only go to the other tabs to configure and find out their parameters
1. Tab Template Search options
Within this tab, you can do the following:
- Choose components: K2 or Joomla content
- Change the default text to your own
- Change "Next" button text
- Set the number of results.
2. Tab Template result options
Within this tab, you can do the following:
- Show title or not
- Link title or not
- Show description or not
- Show date or not
- Edit date format
- Show paging or not
3. Tab Module Permissions
This tab helps you to set permission for groups to delete/edit/change state any content of the extension
Delete (Inherited/Allowed/Denied): Allow or deny Delete for users in the Public group. Delete Allows users in the group to delete any content in this extension.
Edit (Inherited/Allowed/Denied): Allow or deny Edit for users in the Public group. Edit Allows users in the group to edit any content in this extension.
Edit State (Inherited/Allowed/Denied): Allow or deny Edit State for users in the Public group. Edit State Allows users in the group to change the state of any content in this extension.
4. Tab Advanced
Within this tab to you can configure advanced parameters for the module including:
- Input Class Suffix: Add class suffix for input
- Button Class Suffix: Add class suffix for button
- Result Class Suffix: Add class suffix for result
- Module Class Suffix: Add class suffix for entire module
- Module Tag: The HTML tag for the module to be placed in. By default this is a div tag but other HTML5 elements can also be used.
- Bootstrap Size: (Values 0 to 12) This allows you to choose the width of the module via the span element built into bootstrap. For more information see the bootstrap documentation.
- Header Tag: The HTML tag to use for the modules header or title this can be either a h1-h6 tag or a p tag.
- Header Class: Here you can add optional CSS classes to add to the modules header or title element.
- Module Style: You can use this option to override the templates style for its position.