Posted by firesidelibrarian on November 16, 2013 at 9:34pm
I am building a site for a friend's on-the-web radio programs, and would welcome recommendations for how to improve upon Drupal core's basic search function, which is too literal for my purposes.
Is it better to add a Google search box, or are there modules you recommend and use? The best I can find is Fuzzysearch, but for D7 it is still in development.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Have you checked out the
Have you checked out the Search API and utilizing Facets? Best example is the Drupal Commerce demo: http://demo.commerceguys.com/ck/products.
You setup a server and index (through Search API UI,) and attach entity fields to the index. Build a view based off of that index, allow exposed filters to be a block, and profit.
Then provide the Facet API to provide on-View altering of the search results.
I have an excellent non-commerce example I can show you, and how i set it up, but the client's site is still in beta so I'd rather not post the URL here. You can contact me through my user page for details, if you'd like.