Drupal 7, displaying an image to search results

Question

I have a content type called "people". When a search is made and one of the search results is of "people" type, I want to display two fields of the "people" type; an image called "photo", and a text filed called "email".

Under "Manage Display" of the "people" content type, I selected custom display types and selected "Search Result" box. After saving, I selected the new "Search result" button and hid all other fields except "photo" and "email". I then customized the photo to have image style of "thumbnail".

I saved, cleared the cache, and reindexed the site. The search results are correct but no images are shown. I am very new to Drupal; all the help I could find is for Drupal 6 and by reading the comments people say that the solutions shown do not work for Drupal 7.

Answer 1

This is a core issue. See http://drupal.org/node/1166114.

Workaround is to add this to your theme's template.php. Also copy search-result.tpl.php from the core search module into your theme folder and clear cache.

function YOURTHEME_preprocess_search_result(&$variables) {
  $result = $variables['result'];
  if (isset($result['node'])) {
    $variables['snippet'] = $result['node']->rendered;
  }
}

The rendered node will pick up the Manage Display settings.

Answer 2

You have to isolate the issue first. Open up Firebug or your browser's developer tools and see if HTML is being output for the image. Maybe the path to the image is wrong in the search results for one reason or another. Also, ensure that you selected the proper formatter over at Manage Display (e.g. a formatter that works in another view mode).

Finally, check which template file is being used to output search results. Maybe this is getting in the way.