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Grouping search results by node type in collapsible fieldsets
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Submitted by Eric.London on 6/10/2008
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This code snippet will group your search results in collapsible fieldsets by node type.

<?php
function MYTHEME_search_page($results, $type) {
  $html = '<dl class="search-results">';

  // get a list of node types
  $nodeTypes = node_get_types();
   
  // loop through results, group by type
  $resultTypes = array();
  foreach ($results as $result) {
    $resultTypes[$result['node']->type][] = $result;   
  }
   
  // create fieldsets for each type
  foreach ($resultTypes as $resultType => $resultTypeResults) {
    $value = "";
    // loop through entries
    foreach ($resultTypeResults as $entry) {
      $value .= theme('search_item', $entry, $type);
    }
       
    // add fieldset
    $html .= theme('fieldset',
      array(
        '#title' => $nodeTypes[$resultType]->name,
        '#collapsible' => TRUE,
        '#collapsed' => FALSE,
        '#value' => $value,
      )
    );
       
  }
   
  $html .= '</dl>';
  $html .= theme('pager', NULL, 10, 0);
   
  return $html;
}
?>

you would think that this would be a common thing!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 16:30.

thank you SO much for this. it's beautiful to find a drupal trick that works so easily and simply.

drupal 6 version

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 23:16.

Based on the above, I just coded up a drupal 6 version:

<?php
function TEMPLATENAME_preprocess_search_results(&$variables) {
   
    $variables['search_results'] = '';
 
    // get a list of node types
    $nodeTypes = node_get_types();

    // loop through results, group by type
    $resultTypes = array();
    foreach ($variables['results'] as $result)
    {
        $resultTypes[$result['node']->type][] = $result;  
    }
   

    // create fieldsets for each type
    foreach ($resultTypes as $resultType => $resultTypeResults)
    {
        $value = "";
        // loop through entries
        foreach ($resultTypeResults as $result)
        {
            $value .= theme('search_result', $result, $variables['type']);
        }
      
        // add fieldset
        $variables['search_results'] .= theme('fieldset',
            array(
                '#title' => $nodeTypes[$resultType]->name,
                '#collapsible' => TRUE,
                '#collapsed' => FALSE,
                '#value' => $value,
            )
        );
      
    }
 
    $variables['pager'] = theme('pager', NULL, 10, 0);
    // Provide alternate search results template.
    $variables['template_files'][] = 'search-results-'. $variables['type'];
}
?>

I've managed to get this to

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 18:43.

I've managed to get this to work in Drupal 7

<?php
function TEMPLATENAME_preprocess_search_results(&$variables) {
    $variables['search_results'] = '';
    // get a list of node types
    $nodeTypes = node_type_get_types();
    // loop through results, group by type
    $resultTypes = array();
    foreach ($variables['results'] as $result) {
        $resultTypes[$result['node']->type][] = $result;  
    }
   
    // create fieldsets for each type
    foreach ($resultTypes as $resultType => $resultTypeResults) {
        $value = "";
        // loop through entries
        foreach ($resultTypeResults as $result) {
            $value .= theme('search_result', array('result' => $result, 'module' => $variables['module']));
        }
        //$variables['search_results'] .= $value;
        // add fieldset
       
        $variables['search_results'] .= theme('fieldset',
            array(
                'element' => array(
                    '#title' => $nodeTypes[$resultType]->name,
                    '#collapsible' => TRUE,
                    '#collapsed' => FALSE,
                    '#value' => $value
                )
            )
        );
    }
?>

Any help on making this work

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 16:06.

Any help on making this work for Druapl 7?