Search entries ordered by sections

Question

Is it possible to perform a search and have the results grouped/prioritized by sections?

e.g. something like:

craft.entries.section(['sec3', 'sec5', 'sec1']).search(...).limit(6) as page_info, page_entries

I want sec3 entries first, followed by sec5 and sec1 entries.

Note that I want to use the built-in pagination mechanism and would not like to use hacks such as searching tons of entries and manually group the results by sections.

Answer 1

Something like this should get you started, q is the querystring in your results url:

{% set query = craft.request.getParam('q') %}
{% set entries = craft.entries.search(query).level(1).order('score') %}
{% set grouped = entries|group('section') %}

        <h1>Results for <em>&ldquo;{{ query }}&rdquo;</em></h1>

        {% if entries|length %}
        {% for section, entriesInGroup in grouped %}
        <h3>{{ section }}</h3>
            <ul>
            {% for entry in entriesInGroup %}
                <li><a href="{{ entry.url }}">{{ entry.title }}</a></li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        {% endfor %}
{% endif %} 

Not sure how pagination fits in here but I'm sure others will chime in.