Okay, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be
I got my full text search working. The problem was a difference between the way Apache and IIS web servers handle things. Right now it brings back the whole of every post it finds, which is less than optimum, of course.You know what though? It works.
Drupal has several types of posts (or node types) you can create and the search module lets you limit your search to any combination of node types. You can search the title, teaser, main body of the post in any combination as well.
Now I need to format it, display an excerpt instead of the whole post, but that's all straightforward stuff. I should probably log searches the way the standard search module does.
Okay, so we have the fortune cookie block that I just think is cute, the weekly archives and links thereto are set up, a recent comments block that recognizes which blog you're on, custom title and blog icon for each account that's authorized to have a blog. Search works though it must be prettified. The modules I've written are independent of all the others and the hacks are minor…as well as applicable to the base distribution (I need to test them on the version in CVS though). Though I still have work to do I know I have exactly the functionality I want and have no more technical obstacles to relaunching this sucker sometime in August.
