That looks way to easy :)<br clear="all"><b><div><b><br></b></div>Ryan LeTulle</b><br><br><div>> <font color="#666666"><a href="http://twitter.com/bayousoft" target="_blank">bayousoft</a> -twitter</font></div><div><br></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Joel Willers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.willers@sigler.com">joel.willers@sigler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'd use Exposed Filters, personally. If that doesn't work, you could always create a custom form and when you hit 'Search' it THEN runs the View (using the Views API) with those filters. This method, of course, takes a bit of programming, but it isn't too hard, actually.<br>
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Here's an example from Views2 (You'll have to find the correct Views3 functions, if they've changed) that searched for items within 15 miles of the zipcode entered in the form:<br>
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(set $zipcode to the $_POST information)<br>
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$view = views_get_view('name_of_view_example');<br>
$view->exposed_input['distance'] = array('postal_code' => $zipcode, 'search_distance' => '15', 'search_units' => 'mile');<br>
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$displayview = $view->preview();<br>
print $displayview;<br>
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Hope that helps some.<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] On Behalf Of Al Sessions<br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:34 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a><br>
Subject: [support] Drupal 7: Search Woes<br>
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Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone on this list. Just by my lurking<br>
you guys have helped me solve problems I didn't even know I had.<br>
<br>
As a Drupal enthusiast fighting through the learning curve (and loving<br>
every second of it) I do occasionally hit a wall, and this is one of<br>
those times. After trying a half dozen modules and pouring through<br>
literally hundreds of <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">drupal.org</a> nodes, I am no closer than when I<br>
started.<br>
<br>
I have a content type with a slew of fields and some 30K nodes.<br>
<br>
I would like to make this searchable by field -- Last Name, First<br>
Name, DOB, DOD, etc. -- with a themed search form to match. You know,<br>
"search by last name", "search by first name", and so on. Faceted<br>
search, while a nice idea, isn't necessary.<br>
<br>
I've tried exposing Views filters without much luck (although if this<br>
is the way to go, I'm happy to revisit Views, hopefully armed with a<br>
handbook page or something) and tried the Search API ( I can't get it<br>
to index anything). Finder just throws errors rather than results,<br>
Search Lucene API isn't ported to D7 and SOLR isn't an option (shared<br>
hosting for a non-profit).<br>
<br>
This can't be an uncommon request and I'd be grateful for any pointers<br>
in the right direction.<br>
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Al Sessions<br>
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