By JohnG-1 on

Am I being thick, or is it true that the standard boolean search operators (at least I think that's what they're called) are not supported by the drupal site-search box?

The kind of operations I mean are:
"search for whole phrase"
search+for+all+terms (usually default)
search,for,any,of,these,terms
-filter -out -these -terms
(combine)+(operators -junk)
etc etc - my apologies if I've used the wrong operator characters, I'm just used to using the common search engine defaults ...

and while I'm at it:

would it be a good idea to include search filter checkboxes for taxonomy terms ... (we have node, comment and user already) at lease vid and tid, but better still, search within user-defined taxonomy categories ... surely the taxonomy is there to guide searching, it even used to be called metatags!

Have I missed something?

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likoma commented

Hi JohnG,

I've been looking for the same thing you're looking for (in the 2nd part of your question above), but haven't found the answer yet. Have you found anything yet?

Here's my stab at asking the question: http://drupal.org/node/24144.

Thanks for any tips,

- Bradley

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laura s commented

aka "trip_search" module. It will offer you some of that functionality.
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likoma commented

Thanks for your comment, Laura.

I've been testing it out (http://www.likomaisland.com/drupal/?q=trip_search/advanced) and it may work if I make the "users" the cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, etc.) so they can filter the jobs to just one place. But that would be making a user actually a city and then that use would have a blog ... ;-) Getting a little messy.

When I just use the categories and I search for "tax law" and "Los Angeles" it'll give me a "tax law" job in San Francisco, too, which I don't want. With that search, I'd just want to see the "tax law jobs in Los Angeles."

OK, late. Tired. Thanks again for your comment--if you have any more, thanks again. ;-)