Why does Drupal not have profile search as standard?

By marc.russell on 18 May 2006 at 11:04 UTC

For such a fantastic CMS system I find it crazy that the search is limited to simply page content and username. Why bother having profile fields that can be added if there is no functionality for other members to search and cross reference them?

In fact I would have thought having page / username / profile as optional selectable items to be included within the search indexing a very valuable and useful feature.

Is there a module available that fixes what I feel is a gaping hole in functionality :)

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morphir commented 18 May 2006 at 12:53

this is the fine part of GPL :) You can do it! I know its kinda a repulsive answer, but really...you should look into it your self. And then ppl will for sure join the developement(hopefully).

Cheers!

morphir.com

not repulsive at all

marc.russell commented 19 May 2006 at 00:34

I agree with you to be completely truthful although I've only just started the weary path of PHP and MySQL so the syntax of everything is new to me although I do have some coding experience. You know how it is you want a feature that you expect to be there and then.... Arrrggghhh!!! :)