Port Faceted Search to Drupal 6

hello david - this module is amazing, and i *think* it may be in use at ostatic.com (om malik's new open source site)...

i was wondering what the status of hte d6 release looks like - i'm more than happy to test out a dev roll-up if you wind up posting it to the project page...

hi, sorry to pester, just wondering if this is still on its way to drupal 6 - would love to use it! happy to test and screw around with it if and when there's a dev or beta..

thanks david, looking forward to seeing it! this kind of search and drilldown is truly the most intuitive way to deal with large content sites on drupal built around large taxonomies and multiple vocabularies...very cool stuff.

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I agree with zilla I have tried all search related modules and for my project Faceted Search is

truly the most intuitive way to deal with large content sites on drupal built around large taxonomies and multiple vocabularies

I'm actually using it with Drupal 5.7 and would like to use it with Drupal 6 too.

Awesome module thanks David.

is there anything one could do to help with the port?

Two thumbs up for the 6.x port!

Subscribing. Looking forward to seeing this brilliant module in D6.

Just checking in to see how your getting on. I'm quite excited to see/test this for 6.x! I am missing this module much since I switched to 6.x..... been using taxonomy_browser as a temporary fix; but it pales in comparison to your quite excellent much anticipated creation!

Please let us know if you need any help!

Cheers!
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I started the port to drupal 6. The basics are working for me. Just the Faceted Search Views and Field Keyword Filter plugins will not work for sure.

I will post my progress on my blog for sure: http://www.denraf.be/content/facetedsearch-module-drupal-6

The patch is against HEAD.

I use windows so i can't apply patch. Could someone post here patched module for windows'users?

Here a new patch. The results do show up now.

When you want to use the serial type, we'll need to redesign the db schema.

The old_element_sort is now moved to a template file and is not in a function anymore.

You can test it at my blog (http://www.denraf.be)

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Hi, Raf & David,

I noticed that hierarchical taxonomies are not (yet) supported in the port to 6.
I have a "locations" tax, with provinces in the root, and "area's" below each province.

When viewing my faceted list, I get all terms in the facet, not just the root provinces.
When choosing a province in the facet, I also expect to see my selection plus the areas in that province, but port shows no further refinement.

Bug or feature?

Hi guys,

Excellent work on getting this patch done.
I've only had one major problem with it where if I type something into the keyword search nothing happens.
If you manipulate the url you can get it to search but it doesn't show what you've typed in so the user won't necessarily know that its worked.
Plus the user would have to change the url to change.
I've been looking through the code but don't really know enough about the module, Drupal or php to come up with a solution to this.
Thanks again

Hiya - I tried to apply the patch and got a ton of errors. Should I be trying to patch the release from the main project page, or should I bet trying to patch HEAD?

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#22 same here

If I look at the dates your last suggestion is probably right.

Isn't it time for a D6 dev version? Or do you want to have a 1.0 for 5 before a real port to 6 is started?

I can provide tests for D6 version.

HEAD version of Faceted Search for Drupal 6.x can be download at: http://drupal.org/node/145191

Here are my testing results with faceted_search 6.x-1.x-dev (Last updated: August 26, 2008 - 05:04) downloaded from this page. Using a Drupal 6.4 fresh intall and Devel module to quickly generate dummy content. Tested on all major browsers: Firefox 3.01, Opera 9.52, Safari 3.11 & IE 7.

The good news:

• Guided Search works smooth and fine. This is awesome.
• When mouseover Guided Search results the subcategory popup is working on all major browsers.

The bad news:

1. Sub-module Faceted Search Views is incompatible with the 6.4 version of Drupal core. To reproduce install module faceted_search then visit module admin page. A red X will show. Attached screenshot (1_incompatible.png).
   
   [EDIT: fixed by DenRaf in comment #56:] Sub-module Field Keyword Filter are incompatible with the 6.4 version of Drupal core. To reproduce install module faceted_search then visit module admin page. A red X will show. Attached screenshot (1_incompatible.png).
2. EDIT: fixed by DenRaf in comment #47: With Guided Search content created by anonymous users is not clickable. Expected result is to be able to click on a link to initiate a search. Link could be something like 'anonymous (24)'. Attached screenshot (2_author_anonymous.png).
3. EDIT: fixed by DenRaf in comment #45: On Faceted Search admin page when clicking Save and edit button we get redirected to the wrong page. To reproduce visit Administer > Site configuration > Faceted search > Click on Save and edit button. Then we get redirected to:
   
   http://mywebsite.com/admin/settings/faceted_search1
   
   Expected redirection should be to stay into the same page:
   
   http://mywebsite.com/admin/settings/faceted_search/1
   
   We notice in the above first link that the slash '/' before the 1 is missing. Attached screenshots (3a_Save_and_edit_Button.png & 3b_RedirectToWrongPage.png).
4. EDIT: fixed by DenRaf in comment #45: Rebuild the Taxonomy Facets index link return fatal error. To reproduce visit Administer > Site configuration > Faceted search > Click on rebuild the Taxonomy Facets index link. Then the next screen will return the following fatal error:
   
   Unsupported operand types in /mywebsitepath/includes/common.inc on line 1275
   
   Expected result is a next screen with a confirmation message. Attached screenshots (4a_rebuild_the_Taxonomy.png & 4b_fatal_error_rebuild_tax.png).
5. EDIT: fixed by Gerhard in comment #50: Keyword search does not work but this can be ignore for now because above post #29 do mention that 'Keyword search does not work'.

Hope this testing help.

The following are notes to myself for future reference. Before using Faceted Search I must run cron and re-index the site. Otherwise search won't work properly:

• Re-index is located under Administer > Site configuration > Re-Index site button
• Cron is located under Administer > Reports > Status report > run cron manually link

I would like to use this module for a search function to a new plant finder drupal site for garden.org. Our writers have already entered a good amount of content(cck fields and nodes) to test this search on. I look forward to getting this to work with drupal 6.4. Thanks to everyone before this who have given me some leads on where to start!

I'm going to look into getting the keyword search working as that is what is really important to our organization. Any helpful tips are appreciated.

I have moderate experience as a php programmer and drupal developer, but this will be some of the first work I'll be doing on a module of this complexity and one I haven't created from scratch. Wish me luck!

ps David, this is an awesome module, great work

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Just changing this so it's better visible in tracker pages.

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@Onopoc: thank you for the very detailed testing. Was very helpfull.

I've created a patch that fixes 1, 3 and 4. For 1, I just make it possible to enable it, did not test these functions.

I've been working on 2 already, but just not there yet.

The patch is against faceted_search-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz of 2/09/08

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K, also issue 2 is fixed. It took al lot of debugging to find it, but as you can see in the patch it are only minor changes.

Great. Thanks DenRaf. I'll try to test your patches this weekend.

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Here's an updated patch which fixes a couple of notices and makes the keyword search work.

_Here_ it is

@DefRaf, Gerhard & David: Thanks for all the patches.

Here are my testing results with current HEAD faceted_search 6.x-1.x-dev (September 28, 2008 - 05:04). Hope this help.

The good news:

• Keyword search works.
• All issues reported in #31 are indeed fixed. Except the first one but that's normal because sub-modules Faceted Search Views & Field Keyword Filter are still under development.
  

The bad news:

1. A small thing with Keyword search. If user search for number '0' (zero without quotes ' ') no result or message is return. Instead user gets redirected to Faceted Search detail search page. This action is confusing. Expected result is to return: 'Current search [×] 0'. Plus the results if any and if no result return message 'Your search yielded no results' (Find attached screenshot done with number '9' zero_expected_result.png). I tried all numbers and they work fine except number '0'.
   
   To reproduce:
1. Create a few pages with number '0' in body.
2. In Keyword search field type in '0'. Click on Search button. (Find attached screenshot zero_step_2.png)
3. User gets redirected to Faceted Search detail search page. Without any result or message. (Find attached screenshot zero_step_3.png)

I didn't test Faceted Search Views because it's still under development. I'll test when it's ready.

Testing done with:

• Current HEAD faceted_search 6.x-1.x-dev (September 28, 2008 - 05:04).
• Drupal 6.4 fresh install
• Most popular browsers: Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE
• Devel module to quickly generate dummy content.

Thanks for porting this great module to Drupal 6. Does anyone have a patch or any sort of info on how to port the remaining sub-modules Search Views and Field Indexer to v6? I absolutely need those.

@clems

Might try Deadwood . It may work out of the box, but often it requires a little to a lot of modifying. A couple of modules I tried with this worked - but not 100%.

Quick patch here to fix issue mentioned in #53 as also to make it possible to enable the field_keyword_filter module since I made a quick port of the field_indexer module.

If someone else wants to help with testing or development here is the module Faceted Search for Drupal 6.x unofficial #58. Made with patch #56 applied against current HEAD faceted_search 6.x-1.x-dev (September 28, 2008 - 05:04). Important: This is an unofficial version and it should be install only on test or development server NOT on production (live) server. Enjoy.

@DenRaf : Thanks for patch on #56. I tested it and sub-module Faceted Field Keyword Filter is now compatible with the 6.4 version of Drupal core.

I haven't tested yet your quick port of the Field Indexer module. When done I'll create another comment with my results at this page.

Patch on #56 fixes only part of issue #53 though. The good new is that searching for the number zero '0' will return a result. But the bad news is that the result is mixed with all available data. Attached screenshot (2_zero_issue.png). To reproduce:

1. Create a few pages with dummy content. Make sure there's no number zero in any page.
2. Create one page with number '0' anywhere in body field.
3. In Keyword search field type in '0'. Click on Search button.
4. The search will return the page with number '0' that's great but this result is mix with all the other pages. In my testing the result is mix with the other 49 pages for a total of 50 pages. Attached screenshot (2_zero_issue.png)
    
   Expected result is to return only the page created at step 2. The page with the zero. Attached screenshot (2_zero_expected.png). This screenshot is a search result with number one '1' instead of '0'. Hope this help.

Task left to do if someone else wants to help:

• Sub-module Faceted Search Views is incompatible with Drupal 6.4. Drupal 6.4 module admin says 'This version is incompatible with the 6.4 version of Drupal core.' To reproduce install this unofficial module faceted_search then visit module admin page. A red X will show beside the sub-module Faceted Search Views so the module can't be activated. Attached screenshot (1_Faceted_Search_Views.png). Expected result is to be able to check the module to active it.

Using drupal 6.5, I am getting the following error warning on every update of content: that line 192 of the taxonomy_facets.module uses an invalid argument (screenshot attached). I am not immersed in this but I will try to have a look.

Good work!

Martin

Faceted Search Views is now compatible once the attached patch is applied.

There were some syntax errors that needed to be cleaned up in faceted_search_views.info.

Module is only half-ported - working on fixing some remaining bugs....

**Edit** What needs to be done to do this module 'right' somewhat exceeds my time and views knowledge at this point. Perhaps someone more familiar with the Views2 API would like to take a crack at it...

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thanks, will give the latest a test.

Today's test :
I have a complete vocabulary for Italian's regions, province and cities. The hierarchy is like this :

Regions
   Provinces
      Cities

If i tag a node with a city, with faceted search in D5 i can browse starting from Region, than select the province and so the city (you can try this on www.youitaly.it).
Now, with D6, i repeat the same step as D5. Imported the same vocabulary, but now faceted search show me only the city.
I try to change "hierarchy" field in database table "vocabulary" from 0 to 1, but with the value "1" it doesn't work at all.

I hope i was clear.

Is there anything i made wrong ?
The version of FS i'm using is 6.x-dev of 21/10/2008. Drupal is the latest (6.5)

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Great work guys! I'll jump in and help test this.

Best regards,
Thomas Kulvik

Ny Media AS
www.nymedia.no
+47 4000 7955

Seems like 6.x doesn't work with views 2, cant seem to find the arg for facted search environment id in views 2...

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So its my understanding that views does not work quite yet... is that still true?

If someone else wants to help with testing or development here is the latest module Faceted Search for Drupal 6.x unofficial version #69. Untested. Faceted Search Views should now be compatible. Made with patch #60 from brianV. Patch applied against current HEAD faceted_search 6.x-1.x-dev (October 20, 2008 - 17:05). Important: This is an unofficial version and it should be install only on test or development server NOT on production (live) server. Enjoy.

I'm using faceted search on D6 to expose some taxonomy categories for a certain role "buyer" as well as search the content

Not using Views or anything else fancy, it's working fine for what I need, using faceted_search-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz

It's a closed site, used for tracking leads from web campaign ads for various clients, using webforms, ThemeKey (really handy, for paths created with taxonomy + pathauto) and additional stats by GA, Woopra and Clicky.

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Good to hear that, we are waiting :)

Why not use as a menu system ;)

Tx for an excellent drilldown solution.

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Hey David,
I tried it yesterday evening, but could’nt get the “related gategories” block. I just downloaded the dev you just submitted, and boom! It works!!
Great job. I’ll let you know if I find any bug/issue.
Happy new year!
jv

Love the search, but is there any way to make the URL more search engine friendly? my.website.com/fsearch/results/taxonomy:4711.3846,4301 is not exactly search friendly.

Thank you,
storable

I got this error right after installing faceted unofficial
user warning: Table 'db.view_view' doesn't exist query: SELECT v.name FROM view_view v INNER JOIN view_argument a ON a.vid = v.vid WHERE a.type = 'faceted_search_results' ORDER BY v.name in /somepathhere/modules/faceted_search_unofficial_no_69/faceted_search_views.module on line 18.

K got it working on a live site... What can I do to help with getting the views submodule working?
http://www.bluediamondhomeandrv.com/

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any word on when Faceted Search Views will be compat with D6.8 and now D6.9?

thanks!

Hey all...

I am in need of views 2 integration but am no coder...

I thought I would post this: http://views.doc.logrus.com/

Its the doc's for views 2 api, maybe this will help give someone a boost.

Thanks for everyone's great work!

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This is a views2 patch, this is still WIP.

It will work if you patched the info file (dependency bug)

If you are using database prefixes then you will also need to patch the query function from the class faceted_search_query in the file faceted_search.inc.
You will have to put curly braces into the join for the heap table. ( wrapper_begin and wrapper_end )

in the default view you will have to provide a pager

Berry.

Patch Does Work, tested on my local machine. I want to get Faceted Search working with boost before I roll this out on my live site.

K got it working with boost and views, so its now live. Only Manufactured Homes and Used have it
http://www.bluediamondhomeandrv.com/

but if you want to browse it all here's the "secret" faceted entrances that exposes all
http://www.bluediamondhomeandrv.com/manufactured-homes
http://www.bluediamondhomeandrv.com/pre-owned

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I'm trying to display search results using a custom view defined in Views2. Is Faceted Search a possible solution? If so, how do you make Faceted Search Views compatible with Drupal 6.9?

Yes, it does seem to work. The only thing is Field Keyword Filter cannot be enabled becasue Field_Indexer is missing.
Is it possible to include a plain vanilla keyword search block a la drupal default search block?

@sunfish
http://drupal.org/project/autocomplete_node_finder

Patch #90 works great. Thanks Berry!
jv

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Thanks ^^ Congratulations! Great job :)

Great Work!! Thank You so much :)

Just in time! I was struggling with the views integration yesterday afternoon, and vualah, a beta release with everything working beautifully that night! Thanks guys!

Great David, and thanks to everybody who works on this issue.

sorry about that...

@kpaul, open a new issue for your question. This thread is marked as fixed.