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Drupal: Faceted Search Forms

Oh ja das Finder Modul kommt mit auf meine Liste von Drupal Modulen die man häufiger brauchen kann.

Finder allows Drupal site administrators to create flexible faceted search forms to find entities such as Nodes or Users based on the values of fields and database attributes.
Example uses of Finder:

• An autocomplete search on node titles in order to find a node.
• A filter for a list generated with the Views module.
• A select list of all the possible values for a particular content field in order to get a list of corresponding nodes.
• Multiple groups of radio buttons and checkboxes with taxonomy terms to find nodes that match all the selected terms.
• An autocomplete search on usernames in order to go to a user profile.

VisualSearch.js

Schicke UI für faceted search:

VisualSearch.js enhances ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete faceted search queries. Specify the facets for completion, along with the completable values for any facet. You can retrieve the search query as a structured object, so you don’t have to parse the query string yourself.

daily links

• desandro/isotope
  An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. Enables filtering, sorting, and dynamic layouts.
• switching to vim
  Admit it: every time you see a person using Vim, you consider the possibility that they know something you don’t. Why else would they be using an editor that, in your mind, is dated, open-source junk? Think what you wish, but there’s a reason why top developers swear by Vim.
• Yahoo! Search Clues
  Yahoo! Clues lets you explore how people are using Yahoo! Search. When you enter a word or phrase in the "Search Term" field and click Discover, you’ll see information about that search term’s popularity over time, across demographic groups, and in different locations.
  You can also enter a second search term in the "Compare With" field. This will show you information on both search terms, side by side.
• A Simple CMS for Web Designers · Surreal CMS
  Surreal CMS is a hosted content management system that was built for web designers. Manage all of your websites from one convenient location and give your clients access to safely edit their own content. Best of all, there’s absolutely nothing to download or install.

daily links

• Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Google Map Selector
  This jQuery script lets you easily embed a Google Map on your page that supports switching between multiple addresses. A two column layout is presented by default, with the list of desired addresses on the left column and a Google Map on the right. The script automatically adds a CSS class of "selected" to the selected address’s LI container to highlight the current address while updating the "View Larger Map" link below the Google map to the appropriate link as well.
• Exclude Posts and Pages in WordPress Search
  Sometimes you don’t like to display every post and page on search results. Today I like to show you how to filter the search in your frontend. Therefore I add a filter to the query of WordPress and exclude the according posts or pages of the search.
• Fast 404 | drupal.org
  Drupal has expensive 404 errors. On an ‘average’ site with an ‘average’ module load, you can be looking at 60-100MB of memory being consumed on your server to deliver a 404. Consider a page with a bad .gif link and a missing .css file. That page will generate 2 404s along with the actual load of the page. You are most likely looking at 180MB of memory to server that page rather than the 60MB it should take.
  That’s where Fast 404 comes in. This module combines a very common method of handling missing image/file 404 errors (discussed here and planned for Drupal with a method created by dpardo (a co-maintainer of this project) to deliver super fast 404 error pages for both missing images and bad paths. Depending on which method of implementation you choose (aggressive or super aggressive) you can deliver 404 errors using less than 1MB of memory on your server.

Wer sucht was

Nette Geschichte um das Suchverhalten der Nutzer der Suchmaschine Yahoo hinsichtlich Geschlecht, Alter, Ort und Einkommen zu analysieren: Yahoo! Clues.

Allerdings sind wohl bislang nur Daten aus den USA abrufbar.