Searching for Module to Install

Posted by sja45uk on November 4, 2012 at 10:08am

I need to understand more about searching for a specific contributed module to install on my demonstration site.

I needed to install the "webform" on my drupal demonstration site and the "http://localhost/drupal/contact#overlay=admin/modules/install" page does not offer a keyword search. I had to right-click on the "modules" link to get to the modules search page on drupal.org. Is there any reason why there is not a module name box on the "Administration > Modules > Install new module" page?

Please can someone please explain why the http://drupal.org/project/modules page does not return "webform" as its top result for the default "Sort by: Relevancy". I found that I had to select "Sort by: Type" to get "webform" to show up first. Is there any means of getting the "modules" link to pass a "Sort by: Type" request to drupal.org?

I have a lot of trouble searching on drupal.org or with Google for specific information about the drupal.org site rather than drupal in general. Am I missing some trick for searching for information about, for example the above search problem. It does not help that I do not know how the module search is implemented (for example what module is used) on the the drupal.org website. Is there any means available for me to explore more about the construction of the site and how to optimize its search?

Comments

I don't see a problem. I put

Posted by John_B on November 4, 2012 at 5:41pm

I don't see a problem. I put Drupal Webform into Google and the project page comes out as the top result. What more could one want, except the same quality of search from the drupal.org search box? Unfortunately drupal.org has inferior quality search compared with Google,.

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I don't know, but to a nubie it feels like a hack

Posted by sja45uk on December 2, 2012 at 7:58am

Surely there is some way to have a search box actually on the Modules page and use the D.O. page structure to find the module or perhaps I am asking too much. Alternatively, I have no idea if the search could interface to Google to get the best answer. However, in the spirit of http://drupalquickstart.org Mission Statement - Value: "9. Don't reinvent the wheel", you are probably right.