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This extension is a wonderful upgrade on the standard VirtueMart search module. Easy to install and use, even from someone like me who has no prior experience in building any websites, let alone a J! website with a bookstore. Thanks for doing a super job!

Small fast works ok, it will be nice to have check box like search all product description etc.

Overall an excellent way to allow your users to search your Virtuemart store using ajax.

After installing this extension, it searched right, but I ran into some issues with multiple source urls when using JoomSEF (you may need to look into overriding the itemID if you run into the same thing). I emailed the author and he got back to me in the same day. We exchanged emails for a day or so until he got me on the right track. The problem wasn't with the extension, rather the way it was set up with my site.

Good one.

Been through too many search modules for Joomla, including the one that is included with it. This one worked right away. Very easy. Thanks so much!!

I made the account especially to rate this extension, it is really useful on a Virtuemart website and also looks so good (i customized it a little, changing the animation gif and translating inside).
I just encountered a problem, which proved to be from my particular settings but Dean was very prompt in helping.
It would be nice to come with a translation file, for future easier upgrades, but anyway for a free extenstion is already alot.

probably the best search module, unfortunately based on prototype causing problems with mootools. Waiting for mootools edition

The extension is good yet it's very annoying the issue of copying livesearch.php to root directory (I honestly didn't notice it the first time) and moreover it has another problem. If you choose a different table prefix during joomla installation (different from jos_) the module won't find any product beause the filtering query has hardcoded the tables with jos_. Should correct this in livesearch.php
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Since I terribly needed it I decided to correct the problems so this evening I have just created a new personal version of mod_vm_livesearch which has the following features:
1) It is based on jquery rather than prototype/moo.fx, and so using jQuery noConflict it can be used without any javascript conflict with any other javascript library in any template.
2) jQuery just requires a single js file (minified) rather than downloading moo.fx.js + prototype.js
3) It corrects the table prefix error using the correct prefix
4) It doesn't need to manually copy the file somewhere since it copies livesearch.php automatically to the root folder (according to the right folder permissions)
5) jQuery can use cache with the ajax requests
6) It corrects a graphical issue about animations too close to each other (no need to toggle when you know if it's already showing or not)
7) It simply binds the search function to the onkeyup instead of both binding it to onkeypress AND call it every 0.01ms

I am gonna send this version to you soon since I just want to correct other 2 features I don't like:
1) The messages in mod_vm_livesearch.php are hardcoded in English
2) It should be useful to check if a decent version of jQuery is already been loaded by some other component/module so it won't need to include it AGAIN.

What about updating your module with my corrections to make it public to the world wide web? In my opinion it should be public.

This is a fantastic idea for a VM module and initially seemed to work great but it seemed to have problems with my site set-up and clicking any of the search results loaded the VM page outside of it's normal position. This didn't happen with Lightquick's other module and I could figure out what caused this. I also then discovered that it conflicted with a Moo tools based plug in I was using and decided that I'd wait for the next version. To be fair, the Moo Tools conflict is a problem with various Joomla extras. It's definitely worth downloading and trying on your site if you use VM as it adds a professional element to finding your products. Support for the module was very quick and specific but I just didn't have the time or need to work out what was causing the problem. If you are creating a VM site, I would also have a look at the other extensions on the author's site as there are some excellent additions to VM.