Searching User Profiles, Which Module Combination Provides the Best Solution?
techguy10 - April 22, 2008 - 09:59
I'm building a social networking site, I've spent a few hours looking at different search modules so far I haven't been able to figure out an effective solution to allow a user of my site to search for a specific node profile value, such as by "city", "sex", "zip code", in the way that you can on a site like myspace or facebook. Optimally I would like it to be possible for a site user to choose an option, such as "male" or "female" from a pull down menu, rather than having to enter it manually. I've found a few modules that seem promising, such as the finduser module but they seem to have very limited documentation and are still in development.
I would appreciate any advice on this from anyone who has experience with this.
If you use one of the user
If you use one of the user as nodes modules (like nodeprofile) you can use the http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search and http://drupal.org/project/cck_facets to do this. Also, you might want to take a look at Michelle's site at http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com/ for a wealth of ideas and tutorials on setting up social networking with drupal.
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I have tried the faceted
I have tried the faceted search with the cck_facet module, unfortunately it seems that the cck_facet module is still in development and it only works with the faceted_search development version of the module, when I tried installing this it seemed to just cause problems, has anyone on here been able to use cck_facet, or do you know of an alternative that provides a similar functionality? thanks