Today I have installed the alpha version of an indexed search function for the blogs. Basically it can search the blogs for a set of words (must be more than 3 letters long) and give back a list of results based on the relevance.

The search function consists of 3 TYPO3 extension plugins, one to handle the form one to handle the results and a backend module which handles the indexing of new and updated blogs.

The search relevance is yet to be based on sentences thus it works only with words currently however if I can think of a clever way to handle phrases without having to run a fulltext search on the blogs table then I will implement that also.

The search system is obviously still to be styled and lacks a pagination feature as yet but apart from that it seems to work.

If you see any errors from the script please give me a note in this blogs comments. Any suggestions are also welcome in the comments :P.