diff --git a/src/topics/search.js b/src/topics/search.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e05bd8b084
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/topics/search.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = function (Topics) {
+	Topics.postSearch = async function (data) {
+		console.log('in topic search');
+		console.log('data:', data);
+
+		// extracting the attributes of the data object
+		const query = data.query || ''; // the search term
+		const tid = data.tid || 1; // topic id to search in
+		const page = data.page || 1; // pagination: current page
+		const uid = data.uid || 0; // user id of the searcher
+		const paginate = data.hasOwnProperty('paginate') ? data.paginate : true;
+
+		const startTime = process.hrtime();
+
+		// storing the posts associated with a topic
+		const set = `tid:${tid}:posts`;
+		// getting topic attributes using getTopicData
+		const topicData = await Topics.getTopicData(tid);
+		// using getTopicPosts function in src/topics/posts.js
+		// to retrieve all the posts in the topic (by making range 0 to -1)
+		const postsData = await Topics.getTopicPosts(topicData, set, 0, -1, uid);
+
+		// filtering posts based on query
+		// looping through retrieved postsData array
+		// and inspecting each post object for the search query
+		let filteredPosts = postsData.filter(post => post.content.toLowerCase().includes(query.toLowerCase()));
+
+		const searchResult = {
+			matchCount: filteredPosts.length,
+		};
+
+		if (paginate) {
+			const resultsPerPage = data.resultsPerPage || 10; // default results per page
+			const start = Math.max(0, page - 1) * resultsPerPage;
+			const stop = start + resultsPerPage;
+			searchResult.pageCount = Math.ceil(filteredPosts.length / resultsPerPage);
+			filteredPosts = filteredPosts.slice(start, stop);
+		}
+
+		// timing the search process
+		searchResult.timing = (process.hrtime(startTime)[1] / 1e6).toFixed(2); // ms timing
+
+		// returning filtered posts and match count
+		searchResult.posts = filteredPosts;
+		return searchResult;
+	};
+};
diff --git a/test/topics.js b/test/topics.js
index 8a32e445f5..8d99af493b 100644
--- a/test/topics.js
+++ b/test/topics.js
@@ -53,6 +53,67 @@ describe('Topic\'s', () => {
 		};
 	});
 
+	/* describe('.search()', () => {
+		// let topic;
+		let adminUid;
+
+		before(async () => {
+			adminUid = await User.create({ username: 'admin' });
+			const categoryObj = await categories.create({
+				name: 'Test Category',
+				description: 'Test category created by testing script',
+			});
+
+			topic = {
+				userId: adminUid,
+				categoryId: categoryObj.cid,
+				title: 'Test Topic Title',
+				content: 'The content of test topic',
+			};
+
+			// create a topic first
+			topic.tid = await topics.create({
+				uid: adminUid,
+				title: topic.title,
+				content: topic.content,
+				cid: categoryObj.cid,
+			});
+
+			// create posts in the topic for testing
+			const post1 = await posts.create({ uid: adminUid, tid: topic.tid, content: 'First post in topic' });
+			posts.create({ uid: adminUid, tid: topic.tid, content: 'Another post about testing' });
+			posts.create({ uid: adminUid, tid: topic.tid, content: 'Post with a different keyword' });
+
+			// checking if post has been created properly
+			console.log('post1:', post1);
+		});
+
+		it('should return all posts if the query is empty', async () => {
+			console.log('*****************************');
+			// checking if topic and topic.tid created properly
+			console.log('topic:', topic);
+			console.log('topic.tid:', topic.tid);
+			topic.postsearch({ query: '' }, (err, searchData) => {
+				console.log('searchData:', searchData);
+				assert.ifError(err);
+				assert.equal(searchData.matchCount, 3);
+				assert.equal(searchData.posts.length, 3);
+			});
+		});
+
+		it('should return all posts matching user query', async () => {
+			console.log('*****************************');
+			console.log('topic:', topic);
+			console.log('topic.tid:', topic.tid);
+			topic.postsearch({ query: 'another' }, (err, searchData) => {
+				console.log('searchData:', searchData);
+				assert.ifError(err);
+				assert.equal(searchData.matchCount, 1);
+				assert.equal(searchData.posts.length, 1);
+			});
+		});
+	}); */
+
 	describe('.post', () => {
 		it('should fail to create topic with invalid data', async () => {
 			try {