By Julien PHAM on

Hi,
When I do a search in my whole site, it searchs for all content types. And if I ask for an advanced search, I can choose the content type I would like to search in.

I don't like that, I would like the user not beeing able to choose which content type he will search in, and force him to search only in some content type.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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robertDouglass’s picture

robertDouglass commented

You would need to implement hook_search to search only on the node type you're interested in, and then call search_box() with the parameter 'search/yourtype'. In other words, the tools are there for programmers, but there is no UI to do this.

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SparkyUK’s picture

SparkyUK commented

I'm stuck on this as well. This seems like such a basic functionality - to be able to search say, only movierevies or only with a forum. Is there a way to do it with taxonomy instead?

Altervatively, I know some basic PHP - enough to have create some of my own basic mods on drupal and other systems. Your answer above doesnt' really tell me where to start - do I need to create a new module, or is this php that can go directly into a page. (I would like, for instance, a way to search just the forums, from the forum home page. This would be seperate from the "Search this site" function that would search everything.)

appreciate your help.

(ps I see the help section on searches, and in particular the hook_search here: http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_search bit it doesn't help me to understand how it is implemented. In the example they give, they say they use node.module - but I can't see where in the code it references that)