Display search results in a view

Question

I read everywhere that it is possible with Views 3 to display search results in a custom view by adding a contextual filter "search: term" to the view and pointing the view's path to "search/node/%". There even used to be a module that added this contextual filter to earlier Views versions: https://drupal.org/project/views_handler_argument_search

Also, see #9 here: https://drupal.org/node/266683

However, I don't have any "search" contextual filters or relations in my view. Was this feature removed again?

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Edit: I don't want to search the view once I'm in the view (exposed filters would be the answer in this case). I want to use a view to display the search results of the search form that would be present anywhere on my website. Also, I want to use the indexing feature of Search module instead of using exposed filters. Unfortunately, Apache Solr is not an option.

Answer 1

1. Create a page view called search (Add the fields to display)
2. Add a path "/search"
3. Add the contextual filter "Global: null"
4. Add a filter "Search: search terms", expose the filter.
5. Expose the form in a block to use the search form elsewhere on your site.

Answer 2

Have you tried to use "exposed filters"?

You can set it in Filter Criteria and then in the Advance column you can set "Exposed form in a block".

Answer 3

Create a views with "search" path, add your filters in filter section ( don't use contextual filter") then in advanced ,Exposed form set Exposed form in block to yes then save views, after that the exposed search block will be exist in block list, you can put it in every where you want, when user search something in that block it will redirect to search?title=keyword ( or something like this, I supposed here that you search filter is title)