I was actually still running the standard oscommerce search scripts on my webshop. Up till now i only excluded some features i didn't want to offer (like search filters on the product-date) and i had to make an improvement to the raw query when my hoster started to complain about slow queries...

Anyway, i wanted to *upgrade* the search functionality with the following features:

* Search suggest while typing
* Did you mean... function on 0 hits on a per keyword basis
* Offer additional facets as search results (for example indicate number of hits per categorie in a link as part of the results).
* Misspellings (aspell integration)

I started investigating what tools are available (without the need for a deamon since my hoster doesn't support it) and ended up with Sphider.

This contribution uses the Sphiders' functionality to index (an osCommerce product) and to search for products using keywords. On this basis faceted navigation was build.

CURRENT CONTRIBUTION STATUS:

* This contribution is not finished and cannot be used yet in a live osCommerce shop!
* Currently only the basic features are provided at admin side to 'experiment and play around', catalog integration has not been done yet!
* I'm looking for experienced developers who can provide me with usefull feedback to finalize this contribution. Please contact me at pbor1234@hotmail.com


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