This module provides drupal sites with a fuzzy search engine to allow for broader keyword matches including partial or misspelled keywords.

Fuzzy matching is implemented by using ngrams. Each word in a node is split into 3 (default) letter lengths, so 'apple' gets indexed with 3 smaller strings 'app', 'ppl', 'ple'. The effect of this is that as long as your search matches X percentage (administerable in the admin settings) of the word the node will be pulled up in the results.

Features:

Mispellings and typos still provide relevant results.
External scoring factor hooks exposed so contrib modules can give administrators options for scoring.
Reindex function available to allow modules to specifically call a certain node for reindexing at next cron run.
Indexing of CCK textfield field types and taxonomy terms.
Implements hook_nodeapi's 'update index' op, so current modules integrating with core search will work the same.
Works independently of core search.
Block provides related content type results from url query.
Ngram length is configurable.
Content types may be exclude from results.
Fuzzy highlighting of misspelled search terms.

Requirements

Entity API
Search API
You will need the Search API Pages module or Views to provide a place to search your site.

Installation

Install this module and all its dependencies as you would with any other
Drupal 7 module. See https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/extend/installing-modules
for further information.

Configuration

A default server and index are created when the module is installed. Run cron to index your content, and add a Search Page or a View using the default fuzzy index.

To setup a search page using the Search API Pages module,

go to the main Search API page,
click Search Pages, add a search page, and configure with the index you created above, multiple terms for query type, and view mode as themed as search results.

To setup a search for Views,

create a new view using the default fuzzyseach index,
add a page display and configure as desired.

For more information, please refer to the module's README file.

Credits

This module has been created by Blake Lucchesi and was a long time maintained and extended by Aaron Wolfe.

Please note: The Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 versions are no longer supported.

Fuzzy Search

Issues

Backdrop port (Fuzzy Search)ActiveCode Created 9 months ago

Backdrop port (Fuzzy Search)
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