ENH: Streamlined search

[johnhenley]

There are a number of ways to search forums content:

• We previously integrated with DNN (lucene) search so a site-wide search includes forums content
• We have a forums-wide search control with basic and advanced options, and (optionally) uses SQL fulltext search (if available and configured)
• We have a "mini search" control that can be used atop a forums topics view to search the topics in a particular forum.

This is a placeholder task to capture ideas.

Are there use cases for having a forums-wide search in addition to site-wide search?

If not, do we just remove search controls from forums and feed content to DNN search?

Otherwise:

• Change forums search control:
  • Use templates for query and results
  • Remove dependency on sql fulltext search. This is not available to all installations and was built years ago to provide capabilities that are now in the DNN (lucene) search and involves number of steps to install/configure
  • Use DNN search API to get results
• Remove mini search as it is probably redundant

[WillStrohl]

Not every site implements the site search. In fact, I would say that most new sites don't make that obvious these days. The quick search seems redundant, too.