Ajax based Frontend Filtering

[Nvironmental]

Hi there,

We are currently building a site that uses the SiteSearch Plugin with Graker/PhotoAlbums.
We have already extended the plugin to search for extra info and tags associated with Photos
We wanted to enhance the search to introduce the filtering functionality as depicted the image attached. These will be predefined filter options (as shown on the left).

Kindly help and guide us for the necessary steps to extend SiteSearch in order to introduce ajax frontend filtering ?

[tobias-kuendig]

Just submit the predefined form values along with the ajax request. You can then access all the form values in your custom search provider class via Request::input() and do your searching from there! The plugin only provides the base to gather results of many providers. The searching itself is left to the developer.

[Nvironmental]

thanks for your input. Will try this

[siriokun]

Please provide some example to search by filter dropdown.