Hi everyone,
I run a fairly popular forum on Drupal 6 + advanced_forum module. I currently have a little over 20,000 nodes and closing in on 500,000 comments. I'm not using the nodecomment module and I'd prefer to avoid it.
I'd like to ask for a quote for developing a module that allows users to search a specific node with many comments on multiple pages. This functionality is present on vBulletin and I've found it very useful on other forums. Basically I would like to duplicate that functionality on Drupal 6 + advanced_forum. On each node towards the top there would be a "Search this thread" field, and that opens a new page with the search term highlighted in all of the matching hits in the comments for that node.
I don't know if it would be possible to use the existing Drupal search index for this functionality, or if would be necessary to run a custom scripted search on the given node. I would obviously prefer to use the existing index to save server resources if possible, but if it's too complex then maybe it would be acceptable to run an on-demand search on that node with its related comments, if technically possible.
I don't have a huge budget, but I would like to know at least a ballpark figure. I'd also be willing to contribute this module as a Drupal project so it can be maintained by the community.
Thanks a lot in advance!
