Drupal search - alternative ways of doing it?

Question

3rd Drupal question in a day.. guess what I'm doing!

OK, I've got the default Drupal search block, but I really need to find a way of restricting it to just searching one particular content type which is called "recipes" (guess what that one contains!)

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can restrict the search and then go about controlling the output display?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the Search config module. If this module does not your work you should also look at this page: http://www.drupalmodules.com. Just type in "search" and you can find a few search plugins with descriptions.

Answer 2

I recommend the Finder module, which works well with CCK and filters and is straightforward to theme.

Answer 3

You could be interested in trying Faceted Search, which add a series of blocs to filter the results returned by the search module. There are many other modules which are related (see Projects related with Faceted Search).