[support] Drupal 7: Search Woes

[Ryan LeTulle]

That looks way to easy :)
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> (set $zipcode to the $_POST information)
>
> $view = views_get_view('name_of_view_example');
> $view->exposed_input['distance'] = array('postal_code' => $zipcode,
> 'search_distance' => '15', 'search_units' => 'mile');
>
> $displayview = $view->preview();
> print $displayview;
>
> Hope that helps some.
>
> Joel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Al Sessions
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:34 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Drupal 7: Search Woes
>
> Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone on this list. Just by my lurking
> you guys have helped me solve problems I didn't even know I had.
>
> As a Drupal enthusiast fighting through the learning curve (and loving
> every second of it) I do occasionally hit a wall, and this is one of
> those times. After trying a half dozen modules and pouring through
> literally hundreds of drupal.org nodes, I am no closer than when I
> started.
>
> I have a content type with a slew of fields and some 30K nodes.
>
> I would like to make this searchable by field -- Last Name, First
> Name, DOB, DOD, etc. -- with a themed search form to match. You know,
> "search by last name", "search by first name", and so on. Faceted
> search, while a nice idea, isn't necessary.
>
> I've tried exposing Views filters without much luck (although if this
> is the way to go, I'm happy to revisit Views, hopefully armed with a
> handbook page or something) and tried the Search API ( I can't get it
> to index anything). Finder just throws errors rather than results,
> Search Lucene API isn't ported to D7 and SOLR isn't an option (shared
> hosting for a non-profit).
>
> This can't be an uncommon request and I'd be grateful for any pointers
> in the right direction.
>
> --
> Al Sessions
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