Michelangelo Partipilo wrote:
Hello,
I've been thinking about something like this for a while since drupal search doesn't fit my needs.
I thought I could have a basic view and use a form to tweak it a little, change the sorting, price range, etc.
I'll keep an eye on your development.
Mostly, I want to know if this is something people want? Thanks in advance.
--Tresler
I've been exploring my ideas about this and need to next plot it all out as the idea has grown some. Basically, you can create views through calling views_build_view() I *think* what I want to do is create a module that can, at one page create a Content type via CCK, a View for it via the views.module, and the "search" form that can pass filters to the View. The benefits of this would be a centralized interface that can do a common set of tasks at one place, BUT using the seperate modules, so you could later use the view, content type, and custom form elsewhere. The use I have in mind is for easy classifieds with multiple search criteria per form. E.G. Price Field from CCK can be searched through Views and its filters by a min_price and a max_price. The filters are passed to teh View upon form submission, not set in the View itself. Later the same CCK and View can be used to generate a block regardless of the search form. I think there is a strong benefit of centralizing these components, while keeping htem seperately tweak-able.. Input? --Tresler