Jeroen's options are the main ones! To give you an idea of the differences:
XsltSearch - simple search that uses XSLT syntax, good for many tens of thousands of records. Great if you want a simple search, with no advanced functionality. No real set up required, just install the package, and then add the macro to your search page, and set a few simple parameters like what fields to search etc. You need zero programming skills to add this search to your site.
The other two use Examine/Lucene. This is a much more complex search tool and allows for things like boosting fields, fuzzy matching and scales extremely well to huge amounts of records and traffic. It is however much more fiddly to set up properly, and requires a decent knowledge of programming to get the most out of it. It is however rediculously powerful.
Creating a Search page in Umbraco
Hi all,
I'm just wondering if it is possible to create a search page in Umbraco. If so, does anyone have any tutorial links?
Thanks
What kind of seach page do you want? There are some packages which you can use:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/xsltsearch
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/full-text-search
And off course there is examine :).
Jeroen
Hi @Louis,
Jeroen's options are the main ones! To give you an idea of the differences:
XsltSearch - simple search that uses XSLT syntax, good for many tens of thousands of records. Great if you want a simple search, with no advanced functionality. No real set up required, just install the package, and then add the macro to your search page, and set a few simple parameters like what fields to search etc. You need zero programming skills to add this search to your site.
The other two use Examine/Lucene. This is a much more complex search tool and allows for things like boosting fields, fuzzy matching and scales extremely well to huge amounts of records and traffic. It is however much more fiddly to set up properly, and requires a decent knowledge of programming to get the most out of it. It is however rediculously powerful.
Hope that helps!
:)
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