Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.0 Component: page.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Eric Scouten Reported by: Eric Scouten Updated by: Steven Status: patch Sorry, that was me. Steven Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 23, 2005 - 21:28 : Eric Scouten Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/node_search_hook.patch (719 bytes) As currently defined node.module's search hook doesn't provide enough information to allow a rich rendering of search results. For instance, in a photographic web site, I'd like the search results to show a thumbnail of each matched image. I can't do this without access to the node object. The attached one-line patch provides access to the node object in the search results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 23, 2005 - 22:55 : Anonymous I assume you want the $node object in theme('search_item'). Another possibility is to change nodeapi('search result') so it can add custom fields to the $item array rather than just being for adding textual information to the result by-line. That way, the image.module could add a 'thumbnail' field, which can be displayed in the theme. The problem really is: does presentation of the search result belong in the theme or in the modules? I'd like to avoid putting features like search thumbnails in a theme, as a thumbnail adds more information rather than just changing the way something is presented. The current search API is still a bit of a mess, mostly because I focused on functionality of the content search, and just did a minor cleanup of the API code in my patch. Perhaps more invasive changes are needed to allow truly rich search results? -- View: http://drupal.org/node/16056 Edit: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/16056