[support] how to make Drupal look at a DB table for searching vs custom search

[Sven Decabooter]

You might want to check out hook_search (
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_search/6)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:42 AM, spartaguy spartaguy <spartaguy300 at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> Hi
>
> I am trying to implement an internal search function. Drupal's search only
> displays
> site content it knows about.
>
> However I am trying to index dynamic DB data from my own custom table.
>
> Whats the best way to do this?
>
> Should I use a drop down menu and search on fields like name,address,area
> etc?
> Or can drupal do this for me using its own search and some extra tweaking?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> <?php
>
>
> $sql="SELECT * FROM {catalog}";
> $result = pager_query($sql, $limit = 10, $element = 0, $count_query =
> NULL);
>
>    while ($row = db_fetch_object($result))
>    {
>
>     $fields = array(); // define empty array
>     array_push($fields,$row); // push row object onto the array
>    print("Print Object <br>");
>     print_r($row);
>
> print("<p><hr><p> ");
> }
>
> ?>
>
>
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