Search Module Enhancement [#1594164]

I am here to share about Drupal's Search Module limitations & solution to overcome it.

Limitation:- Drupal's Search Module provides search results on the basis of exact keyword match. i.e. when we search a word like 'what' in our website, it give results only where the word 'what' exactly matches & it doesn't include words like 'whatever' in search results. It concludes that Search module executes search query with a EQUAL(=) condition in WHERE clause but we always require results from a search query with a LIKE condition in WHERE clause.

Solution:- We need to create our own custom Search module with same features exactly the Drupal's Search module but with LIKE condition based search query. As we have created a custom search module for reference, you can use & modify it according to your requirement.

You all are free to ask/share anything regarding this.

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Comments

Comment #1

andymantell commented 22 May 2012 at 14:59

Status:

Needs review

» Needs work

Hi,

Assuming this is your sandbox (http://drupal.org/sandbox/annkit87/1594130) - It seems that your project´s repository contains no code yet, please have a look at the documentation about using GIT on drupal.org.

Can the goals of this module be achieved using the search_api module? (http://drupal.org/project/search_api). Specifically, the search_api_db sub module (http://drupal.org/project/search_api_db).

Once you are done and your module is ready to review, please include a link to the project page and Git repository in your original post before setting the status back to "needs review".

Thanks,

Andy