try Umbraco.ContentQuery.Search("paul") :)

and then @result.Content.Name and @result.Content.Url

Thanks Soren, the code works, but the results are empty. I'm not sure why.

I have republished the content and have rebuilt the indexes.

Still 0 results.

I'm trying to get the search to work in my starter kit for v8.

If you are reading this and want to help solve this, please clone the repo and test out the search.

https://github.com/prjseal/CodeShare-Umbraco-Starter-Kit-for-v8/

Hi Paul

Do you have an updated snippet for a working simple search in v8?

Hi.

This works for us in V8

@{
     var searchQuery = Request.QueryString["query"];
     var counter = 0;
}

<ul style="padding:0px">
@if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
                    {
                        var results = Umbraco.ContentQuery.Search(searchQuery, string.Empty);
                        long resultCount = results != null && results.Any() ? results.Count() : 0;
                        <div class="searchresults">
                            @if (resultCount > 0)
                            {

                                    foreach (var result in results)
                                    {



                                          if(result.Content.ToString()=="Umbraco.Web.PublishedModels.Side") {
                                            counter++;

                                            <strong>@counter. <a href="@result.Content.Url">@result.Content.Name</a></strong>
                                        <br><br>
                                        }
                                    }

                            }
                        </div>
                    } 

                    @if(counter==0) {
                        <p>Vi fandt ingen resultater på dit søgeorg <strong>@searchQuery</strong></p>
                    }
</ul>

Thanks Jimmy :)

This is the code I ended up using:

@{
    var searchQuery = Request.QueryString["q"];
}

@if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
    var results = Umbraco.ContentQuery.Search(searchQuery, string.Empty);
    long resultCount = results != null && results.Any() ? results.Count() : 0;
    <div class="searchresults">
        <p>We found <strong>@resultCount</strong> result@(resultCount != 1 ? "s" : "") when searching for <strong>@searchQuery</strong></p>
        @if (resultCount > 0)
        {
            <ul>
                @foreach (var result in results)
                {
                    <li>
                        <h3><a href="@result.Content.Url">@result.Content.Name</a></h3>
                    </li>
                }
            </ul>
        }
    </div>
}

You can see it in my starter kit here.

https://github.com/prjseal/CodeShare-Umbraco-Starter-Kit-for-v8/blob/master/src/CSUSK.Web/Views/Search.cshtml

Cool, thanks Paul

Could I possible ask, I have a number of items within a collection, would I be able to adapt the above suggested code to search a collection?

current query

var newsArticles = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("fb4c2b24-671b-44de-8e2f-cc685a65818a"))
.Children().OrderByDescending(x => x.CreateDate)
.Where(x => x.IsVisible());

Great code, but be aware that including the searched text in the code is a possible injection attack, depending on individual setup of security in Umbraco. So I would leave out the:

when searching for <strong>@searchQuery</strong>

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