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Spotlight: Search Module for Drupal 7

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Sprout Video

Drupal’s built-in Search module offers powerful, flexible searching features and intelligent ranking of results. Behind the scenes, it’s silently building an index of all the words used in the site’s content. In this lesson we'll:

  • Review the Search module settings
  • Explain the importance of cron
  • Discuss searching with Views

Additional resources

Using Drupal, 2nd edition

Using Drupal source code

Drupalize.Me Guide: Using Drupal Book by O'Reilly Media