As a User, I want to be able to search content on the site

[robyurkowski]

The jerkface who made this site is so scatterbrained that I would like to be able to search without hunting for the single instance of a phrase I read on one page a week ago.

[parndt]

Seems like a separate extension

[knewter]

So while it seems like a separate extension, perhaps it could be an early-defined one since it's entirely conceivable that you'd want to be able to specify how a given extension handles search, and it would be nice to have a blessed API for doing this. Thoughts?

I'm thinking afterburnercms-search might hook into things that have registered via its API something like:

module ABC
  class ClassifiedsPlugin < Plugin
    searchable do
      search Post do
        index_by :title, :price, :description
        partial 'posts/search_block'
      end
    end
  end
end

That might be a crappy API (likely is) but if we had one out the gate then people could hook into a nice search system that could segregate by content type (possibly even letting you specify the content type in the URL easily so that you could use the one engine for every search engine type, unless they need heavy lifting)

Too much?

[parndt]

Did you look at the search protocols already in afterburner ?

[knewter]

I have the memory of a dead squirrel

[robyurkowski]

Still better than DDR1.

I do agree with Phil that this is separate extension-worthy, but I also think that this is an important enough and common enough use case to bother dealing with in a first public release, if not the MVP (which I envision as the 'good enough to write a site for public release' milestone).