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I want to develop user matching feature on website. A user will search by giving some search criteria (like we give search criteria in dating / real estate website to filter out search results), and system after, filtering out, will return the users matching that search criteria.

How can it be accomplish in Drupal 7 ? Is there any module or combination to modules to achieve that goal ? Thanks in advance.

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Searching with Drupal core is not very performative because you are doing search queries in a mysql database.

Apache Solr is much more performative and includes a much greater feature set for searching Drupal content: http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

If you want to limit search results just to users you can use the solr module above plus Facet API http://drupal.org/project/facetapi and only expose the facets for the content authors. You can also create a view using Solr Views that will return the author in the search results.

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  • Apache solr is of course a very powerfull search engine. But I think it's way to much work to set-up just to find users. – BetaRide Feb 25 '12 at 18:09
  • Hi BetaRide! Can you please tell what do you suggest as alternative to Solr for things like search users ? thanks – azeem Feb 26 '12 at 23:38
  • hi Azeem: I would actually suggest using search_api as suggested by alexis . You can use solr or drupal as a backend. You can create a search specific enitities such as users. Her answer is better! – acouch Apr 4 '12 at 13:45
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You can create a view of youe users and expose the desired search criterias. This gives you all you need to search for users. This works even with User defined user fields.

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maybe the search api http://drupal.org/project/search_api, and here is the tutorial http://vimeo.com/15556855 about how to setup the api .

i think yo need also http://www.slideshare.net/darrenmothersele/active-tags-and-taxonomy-views-drupal-drop-in-november-2010 here you can find the way to mix taxonomy , views and active tags.

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