By rfiertek on

Hi All,

There is always a module for everything, but when my site is already heavy with modules and I want to have my Search page, generated in Views, search on all 200+ cck fields on the page, I am considering pulling the text of all the fields together and dropping the resultant text mass into the node->body, which is currently not being used and is empty. In this way, I can place a single search box that pulls from that one field to find all relevant search results.

Is this the best quick and easy way to search on a page's content? Is there some way to search on all cck fields on a page without having to duplicate data and shove it into the node body for the sole purpose of generating search results?

I have two more critical modules I still need to add to the site, and I am looking forward to shutting down a bunch of unneeded ones, but still, the site runs entirely too slow currently, so no, adding another big module is not in the cards.

Thanks,
Rob

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jclaussen’s picture

jclaussen commented

Try these two modules together

http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr_custom_fields

rfiertek’s picture

rfiertek commented

Well, as I had said, I had been hoping to avoid more modules. Is there some special functionality modules would bring that a basic search would not?

Thanks, I am guessing I will go with my plan and in the future, should the site take off, I might revisit using one of these heavy modules and getting better server space to cover the cost of the extra overhead.

R