What is the best way to mimic a search query within a plugin

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I’m in the process of building a WordPress plugin. I wish to mimic WP’s default search functionality but in the form of a ‘live search’.

I have my JS setup to grab the query string (i.e what would be /?s=search-term) & am passing it via AJAX to my function. But now I have to process the query to get the list of posts & pages. But I’ve read that it’s not right to simply use query_post from the WP documentation.

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So my question is, what is the correct approach to yield the same search results as if the default search form was submitted?

Please can someone provide a code snippet or a link to a detailed article which clarifies this for me.

Thanks & please pardon my nativity!

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  1. Pass the ‘s’ parameter to a new WP_Query object. 

    $mys = new WP_Query(
  array(
    's' => 'whatever',
  )
);

    That should duplicate the default search.

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