AJAX Search

The built-in search engine utilises AJAX and MySQL's powerful FULLTEXT feature to rapidly return, in real-time, any pages that match your search query.

When you click on a returned result, the visited page will highlight the search terms until one of them is clicked on. Try searching for 'ajax' and clicking on a returned result.

Search results appear here in real-time.

Listing Files

Sometimes, presenting a large list of links to files can be time-consuming and fiddly. We've added a function to Vanilla that allows you to present a listing of files within any directory under your main content folder. To achieve this, you simply add the following tag to your page's content from the WYSIWYG editor:

[directory :content/image] (without any space after the word directory and before the colon)

Example

In the following example we've created a new folder and upload a few images to it. The title is automatically generated from your directory name. Sub-directories within your target folder are not processed.  The output is seen below.

[directory:content/example]

Forced Downloads

This feature also forces a download - instructing the user's browser to always download and save the file on their computer as opposed to reading it immediately or loading it into the browser.

 

Page tags: files, directories, folder, listing, browser, file manager