How do you make Advanced Search on Drupal 6
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group: Real Estate
budikristanto8 - Fri, 2008-09-05 01:23
I am a newbie to Drupal and having trouble in searching for the best module for Advanced Search feature (focusing on data search based on a range of price, i.e. 1000-100000 USD). An example of this feature can be found at http://www.housebroker.com.au/search. I've been browsing around the internet and found some interesting modules related to custom search or filtered search such as CCK Facet and rListing.
I would love to know and appreciate your recommendations and experiences about the custom search modules, especially those for Drupal 6. Thanks a lot for help.
Regards,
Budi
Sitewide tags: Real Estate
Just use views. You do not
Just use views.
You do not need the search module, when you only want a search in your categories.
search module is only for full text searching.
Search on HouseBroker
Hi Budi
That sort of search can't be done using the standard Drupal search module (even from the advanced search page).
I made the HouseBroker search by writing a custom module for it, it wasn't really very hard as searchingby price range is a fairly simple query. Housebroker runs on drupal 5 so the code won't be exactly the same, but if you have a look at the comments in the original post about housebroker you can see some snippets of code I used to write it.
Or you could try Views as Bennos said, I haven't used it for this kind of thing but it's a powerful module and will work with drupal 6. There may also be other CCK search tools that I'm unaware of.
I'm learning Views and CCK Modules
Thanks for help James and Bennos! I'm now learning Views and CCK Modules. Hopefully those modules will help or I need to make a custom module for my need.