By likoma on

I'm new to Drupal (coming from MovableType and now WordPress) because I have hit the ceiling on some features of WP. I read this article and it seemed Drupal may be what I need.

Among other features, the one feature a client of mine needs very soon is the ability to do an advanced search by using keywords and selecting multiple categories. I'd want to make two sets of boxes, one for location (Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.) and the other for job description (Painter, Plumber, etc.). I'd want to be able to check boxes:

JOB SEARCH

Location:
[x] Los Angeles
[] San Francisco

Job:
[]Painter
[x]Plumber

So that with Los Angeles and Plumber checked, the search results would show me all jobs in L.A. for Plumbers (and not ALL jobs in L.A. or ALL Plumber jobs).

Is this something Drupal can do? I see the regular search module and I found the "trip search" module (which may do the trick, I just haven't figured it out yet), but maybe someone here can tell me:

1.) Yes, Drupal can do it. Use/edit XYZ module.
2.) No, Drupal can't do this yet, use XYZ CMS.

Any tips, suggestions or links to where I can figure this out would be most helpful. If Drupal CAN do this and you know how and need some work, I'd be happy to hire you to help me convert a site from MT to Drupal.

Thanks very much,

- Bradley

Comments

sujaikumar’s picture

sujaikumar commented

Hi. I am interested in precisely this same feature.

jasonwhat’s picture

jasonwhat commented

This can be done through a module, http://drupal.org/project/trip_search but is not in the drupal search core.

I would like to see a search page that lists by type and number. For example, http://idealist.org has a search that returns all site categories with a number of how many pieces of content (nodes) matched your search, in a linked format. The link then displays the list of nodes for that category that matched. I want to index aggregator items in search, but don't want them showing and taking over all other content, this seems like the way to do it. For example, I could search, "Japan" and the returned page would look like this:


aggregator (3)


story (2)


category-asia (5)


etc.

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

It does no longer exist in the download, because it is very old. http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/taxonomy_sear...

maybe you will trow yourself up as maintainer of this project? Yes, you can help :)

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