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iJoomla Search & Archive is a 2-in-1 content retrieval extension for Joomla. With iJoomla Search & Archive, your Joomla site can offer both an advanced search page and an archive page - both fully customized.

If you ever thought that the search feature of Joomla just doesn't do the job or if you've ever wanted to show your users a full archive of all your content, iJoomla Search & Archive is the perfect solution! 

Full feature list of iJoomla Search & Archive

iJoomla Search & Archive allows publishers to display a highly organized archive page, making it simple for users to find vintage content. Readers can browse your site by looking at all or some of these zones:

• Sections & Categories
• Years and month
• Last 7 days
• Last 4 weeks
• By Author
• Magazines & issues (with iJoomla magazine)

The iJoomla Search & Archive extension brings a new level of search to your site. Compare the regular Joomla search page with the iJoomla search page. Not only do users receive more options on the search page itself, but they also get more in the search results.

With iJoomla Search & Archive, you can fully control your search results, from the elements to include (such as date, author, category, etc.) to the color of the background. You can even show a thumbnail of the article, automatically generated from your content item's images, include the article's word count, allow linking to more articles from the same section/category/author, etc. and a whole lot more. It's like Search on steroids.

Any keyword entered into the search box will appear highlighted in the search results. Multiple keywords will appear in different colors (up to a maximum of ten, after which the colors will repeat.) Highlight color is customizable on the backend, by selecting the "Color" tab and choosing the background color and text color for the first, second, third etc. keywords.

iJoomla Search & Archive is completely compatible with JoomFish. Install a language in your language manager and when your visitors select that language from the drop down menu on the front end, both the archive and the search page will be displayed in that language.

iJoomla Search & Archive includes a free search module which is very similar to the core Joomla search module. Our module however generates results from the iJoomla Search & Archive component and therefore offers additional features. Simply replace your current search module with the iJoomla Search & Archive module and place it in the same position.

iJoomla Search & Archive has been created at the special request of our iJoomla Magazine and iJoomla News Portal customers. Naturally, this component works smoothly with both those two popular extensions.

• A Search Module
• A Component
• Archive page
• Advanced search page
• Free upgrades for life!
• Free support 

There are lots of benefits! The biggest is that it helps you get more out of your existing content. Instead of leaving your vintage articles buried in the depths of your site, users can find them, retrieve them and read them. Offering an advanced search function that ensures your users find what they're looking for will also make your site more user-friendly and increase your site's stickiness. That's all good news for you.

You can see a complete comparison table here. iJoomla Search gives your visitors many more options for browsing your site, including the ability to search by author, date and category. They'll find what they're looking for, stay on your site longer, and be more likely take action, whether that's clicking an ad unit, signing up to your newsletter or buying a product.

We've divided the archive page into different areas and called each area a "zone." These zones can be used to display sections/categories, authors, and a whole lot more. Not only can you choose which zone to display, you can also set their layout and redefine their order. It's completely flexible. So if all the articles on your site are written by the same person, for example, you'd probably want to leave out the Author Zone. However, if you have many contributors, you could use the zone to link to all the articles by each author and indicate the number of many articles written by each of them.

Yes, you can choose to show or hide any of the search fields you want.

No, we didn't feel you'd need it. It's such a straightforward extension and every field on the backend has an info icon next to it with an explanation. It's pretty tough to get lost with this one.

You can easily choose which sections and categories to search. Just un-publish the sections/categories you don't want your visitors to search.

Yes. Just change the settings on the archive tab on the backend.

On the whole, we've used style classes that already exist on your template's css file, so the style should be consistent with the rest of the site. However, you can enter any existing class name for each element on the style tab. On some elements, we've allowed you to set your own style: for example, on the background and border of search result items.

The thumbnails are automatically generated from your article images. If you placed an image on the article's image tab, iJoomla Search will use the first image it finds there to generate a thumbnail. If there's no image in the image tab, it will use the first image in the intro text. And if there's no image there, it will take the first image it finds in the full text of the article.

All thumbnails generated are real thumbnails and not a resized version of the same file. It makes the page a lot faster to load.

Not at this point. The extension will only search in content items: static, dynamic, live or archived.

Yes, you can control the color of text and the background of ten keywords, just like Google's cache feature. Go wild.

By simply creating a menu item that links to the iJoomla Search & Archive component.  Search and you'll be taken to the search page.

Login to the admin backend, go to iJoomla Search and Archive and click on the archive icon. Copy the URL that appears on the tab and create a new menu item that links to this URL. You can omit the beginning of the URL (http://www.yourdomain.com) if you want to move this site to your production site.

iJoomla Search & Archive was released under a commercial license. Our extensions are not derivative works, so they don't have to be released under the GPL license. The only exception is the search module which is released under GPL alone.

No, but you can install iJoomla Search & Archive  on one domain and on any sub domains or sub directories.

Version 2.1 (Joomla 1.5)

• search by section/category bug fixe
• search by date/time interval bug fixe
• search by static/dynamic content bug fixe
• fixed SEF links from results
• Search module: added an option to add Advanced Search link.
  

Version 1.0.8

• Pagination to tables on search results
• Fixed problems with sections/categories showing/not showing when should
• Enhanced search module 

Version 1.0.7

• Fixed some bugs related to languages, images and pagination 

Version 1.0.6

• Corrected display of date syntax
• Aadded mambot support to content boxes
• Fixed display of weeks on archive page
• Fixed search in article title
• Fixed years, now the years are dynamic
• Fixed hard coded words

Version 1.0.4

• Fixed some issues regarding  thumbnails creation
• Corrected the display of date syntax in "Weeks in Past Month"

Version 1.0.3

• Database size doesn't increase anymore
• Doesn't show unpublished articles on search resultsFixed some issues with image display on search results
• Added 2 more options (Like Article Settings and Like global config settings ) for "Show Author:" in Settings tab
• Added "localization of date" - each day and month are on language file
• Fixed: option Show Author - Link to all articles by this author
• Fixed some issues regarding Ignore Mambots.