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I am sorry if this has been covered but I am building a site using ee and I am utilizing the blog, wiki and forum modules.  The only problem that I am running into is that I need one main search for all three.  The person that is making the site for me estimates it is going to be 20-30 hours to write a custom script.  Is there something off the shelf that could help me or perhaps any other alternatives?

thanks a lot for the help.

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but before I spent lots of money on a custom script, I’d take a close look at Google Custom Search. It’s what I’m using on the PCA site and it has saved me lots of time.

Someone else might be able to tell you about an off-the-shelf solution, though; I don’t know if there is one.

Thanks for the help, I have looked into google search and it seems that it would be much more beneficial for my site if I had something developed.

Anyone else have a suggestion?

Just a guess, but I would surmise that the existing EE search scripts are based upon SQL queries that are fathomable, and as such could be extended to join multiple tables together and search in each of them. But I haven’t seen the queries for either weblogs, forums or wikis, so I wouldn’t be able to say for certain. Still, such a modification to pre-existing query elements mightn’t take 20-30 hours at all. See if you can find those queries!

Terry

Just wondering, were you able to do it?
I mean, search on the forums and weblogs together?
I need to be able to do this. Is there anything available I can use?

Thanks!

Ato

I’m just getting my site up to where it has enough content to start being searchable, but I want to 2nd AWShuttleworth’s plug for Googles Custom Search Engine option.

I had an entire static based site prior to EE using Google CSE which worked wonderfully.  Hard to believe they make it so easy and free.  I’m not guru on web designing, specifically on how search engines work, and to me the CSE was at first a little daunting as it uses lots of terms and data flows.  But after reading the docs, etc and doing a trial setup one or two times… it’s really pretty easy.  The only draw back is waiting for the initial crawl of your site to verify functionality.

After moving to EE I kept the search code in my EE templates as I slowly ported them.  I just now started looking into EE’s Search Module and just for grins started putting some search criteria into my CSE box and low behold it started to draw from both my webblogs and forum data.

I’ve noticed that the wiki entries I put in are not showing up, but I just got that content in a few days ago, so it may be a few days yet to get it crawled.

That being said if you do not have an open site or you have sections that you do not want crawled by a engine bots, you will have to look for an alternative.  I do have an intranet that will be restricted as such so I will continue to look into an alt. solution.