Diamond Search CE

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Diamond Search - Simply brilliant out-of-the-box search engine for OXID eShop!

• Search by all relevant article fields, categories, manufacturers, vendors, variants selections and attributes
• Search field auto-complete function
• Configurable search filters
• Unlimited Multi-shops and multilingual shops support
• No server configuration, no integrations, no setup or indexing effort - just install the module and activate it!
• Articles will index for first time and re-index on changes automatically
• Excellent performance even with large amount of articles
• Easily configurable search options in administration back-end
• Customize fields to search by, set ranking options, add Your custom fields
• Lots of useful search settings to match Your needs
• Monitor page to track indexing process
• Advanced search form
• Promotion articles widget

What's new in v0.4.x

• Compatibility with OXID eShop v4.9.x/v5.2.x
• Advanced search form widget
  • Fully configurable fields to filter by
  • Works as a combined filer compatible with sidebar filters
• Promotion articles widget
  • Articles selection box widget
  • Configurable in back end for default selection
  • Also could be inserted as a widget with custom parameters
  • Selection is based on Diamond Search engine
• Stop words list for unwanted search terms
  • Pre-configured for most common not needed search keywords
  • Configurable per language for custom keywords exclusion
• Search filters adjusted
  • Selected filter is highlighted
  • If filter is selected, other values are not shown
• German translations (not complete)
• Bug fixes and refactoring
  • German language specific words parsing fixed
  • Filter values URL encoding issues fixed
  • Search parser values decoding and split bug fixed
  • CMS pages rendering failure bug fixed
  • Variant indexing on parent article save implemented
  • Variants removal from index on parent article deletion/deactivation

What's new in v0.3.x

• Price range filter (EE, PE editions only)
• New search option - find parent articles only (EE, PE editions only)
• Extended monitor page (EE, PE editions only)
  • More statistics for index contents
  • Most frequent search terms
  • Most popular search terms
  • Configuration options for statistics count and access settings
• Personalized search hints in auto-complete (EE, PE editions only)
  • Stores successful search queries
  • When searching again suggest saved terms on top of the auto-complete list
• Performance Booster (EE, PE editions only)
  • Module is pre-configured for maximum performance
  • Optimized indexing and search processes
    • Database indexes design tested and improved
    • Queries refactored for best performance
    • Removed redundant functionality to make indexing faster
    • Other performance fixes in indexing process
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Search filters shown only in search page sidebar
  • Extended hits count display setting implementation
  • Added monitor page link in administration area main menu
  • Other minor fixes

What's new in v0.2.x

• Search filters
  • Fields configuration allows to set filter option
  • Search filters sidebar widget introduced
  • Color filter has special colored style for simple color names
  • Filter results are stored in session and processed on background
• Configurable option - Index on change. Article is indexed immediately on save.
• Article extends model support created, fields added to default configuration
• Added configurable search statistics saving
• Structure changes
  • Fields configuration file is now named config.php
  • All sample attributes area added to default fields configuration
  • Module is now independent of DB views - unlimited multi-shops and languages are supported
  • Database tables indexes were optimized for best performance
  • Cron script now has more documentation inside comments
• Bug fixes:
  • Cron script messages format fixed
  • Faulty article indexing "trap" fixed
  • Save hooks for models are fixed to set required fields on firs save only
  • Sorting by price and title fixed
  • Older versions support added
  • Other minor fixes

How to install the module

• Copy everything from copy_this/ package folder to Your OXID eShop root directory.
• Activate the module in administration back-end.

That's it! Optionally adjust module settings (in administration back-end) and configure cron (see cron.php script comments).