Sorry, i am adding another question together with this as well.
while implementing the "Search Page" since we are using the emebedded field "Standard Search Fields" type "include all" etc.
how to add "google suggest" like functionality within this.
For this to happend do we need to change via the PHP source code or is there a workaround.
[quote]how to add “google suggest” like functionality within this.
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Could you explain more about this fuctionality? Do you mean things like spell checking the search term, or suggesting related terms? You can do both with Matrix, but suggesting related terms requires you to create and install a Thesaurus dictionary of related terms for the search page to use.
Edited to add that I’ve just found Google Suggest itself and there is no way to replicate this functionality in Matrix. Also, I would imagine it would be very difficult to develop this as Matrix cannot search nearly as fast as Google can. 
yes, that's correct i meant the google suggest only.
in current system we are having a bit of an experiment with it in the test environment. and this has been well recd.
as far as i can gather from your email. if the "google suggest" like functionality cannot be implemented within matrix is there any other workaround (will thesauras work in a similar manner)
what we want is basically to look for
- phonetics
- and sql (like % %) functionality
both
Currently Matrix doesn't support either phonetic or wildcard searching. You'd need to look into integrating a third-party search engine (like HTdig, Panoptic or similar) or perhaps doing some Oracle-based development. I'm lead to believe that the support for full-text searching in PostgreSQL is not mature enough for this functionality.
2 questions.
i suppose, squiz is using postgres 7.4 if yes then,
regarding my earlier question on using levensthein functionality (soundex)
it seems it is possible for postgres 7.2 +
- within the search page, is it possible to validate / trigger an event on keydown/press etc (because this is where the google suggest works)
when i experimented i realised that there is no trigger event.
no validation as such.
- how easy / difficult for squiz team to install the specific library (i suppose) is required to run / make the levensthein / soundex function workable ( if this involves SLA, please liaise with the dept. manager Bradley)
Soundex and other similar functionality requires the full-text indexing support for PostgreSQL, which we are not supporting yet. The full-text indexer is currently not robust enough to handle the kind of simulatenous search requests we get on our websites.
We did try the packages during the rewrite of search functionality and indexing for 3.8, but it did not perform even nearly well enough to be used.
is onclick/keypress events kind of things possible with "Search field"