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Is it possible to create a multiple input search form?
I really hope y’all can help me with this one. A good example of what I’m looking to accomplish can be seen here: http://4sranch.com/index.aspx
Specifically, look at the “Find Your Home” section on the right side. See how you enter multiple search criteria and then hit the “Find It!” button? Is something like that possible with Textpattern? If so, can someone point me toward a resource?
I’ve got a client who has close to 500 architectural blueprints with tons of categories such as square footage, style, price range, etc and he’d like a search form like this one.
If this cannot be accomplished with Textpattern then can someone point me toward a resource to accomplish this?
I know I’m asking a lot here, but I’d really appreciate the help.
Ben Gray | ben@openswitch.org | http://openswitch.org
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Hmmm. This doesn’t seem to work with 4.0.6. It says “badly formed or empty plugin code.”
Ben Gray | ben@openswitch.org | http://openswitch.org
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Nevermind, I had must have been doing something wrong.
Ben Gray | ben@openswitch.org | http://openswitch.org
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Well, the plugin installed correctly, but I’m a bit lost as to how this thing works. I’d be able to figure it out if I could see the code in a working example. I tried just copying and pasting the example in the manual for the plugin (which I’ve read completely) but on my localhost development site I just get a blank screen, no search nothing. Any ideas?
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Are you in debugging mode? Does anything show up in the HTML? If you’re getting white-screened then, switch to testing and see what errors you get.
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This is the tag I’ve got where the <txp:article /> tag should be on the search page.
<txp:ob1_advanced_search set="show_search_form"/>I know there are other variables to put in but I’m just trying to figure out how this works.
This is the code I see in debugging mode:
<txp:ob1_advanced_search set="show_search_form"/>
[SQL (0.000088): select name from txp_section where `name` = 'search' limit 1]
[SQL (0.000099): select Form from txp_form where name='ob1_search_advanced_form']
[SQL (0.000093): select Form from txp_form where name='ob1_search_advanced_header']
[SQL (0.000092): select Form from txp_form where name='ob1_search_form']
[SQL (0.000092): select Form from txp_form where name='search_results']
[ob1_advanced_search initialize: Ok]
[ob1_advanced_search set: 'show_search_form' to '': Ok]
[ ~~~ secondpass ~~~ ]
-->Honestly, I have no idea what any of that means.
Ben Gray | ben@openswitch.org | http://openswitch.org
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Did you go through the setup steps in the manual?
There it says:
On the newly created page for the search section, remove the article tag currently in it and replace it with:
<txp:ob1_advanced_search/>
Note: Whatever you do, don’t load the page just yet!Quick start
If you want the fast approach of to the plugin just add the attribute
setup="1"to the already added tag, load the page and it will install the standard indexes, section, pages, forms and CSS.The standard install makes title, body, excerpt and the custom field one and two searchable in occurrences. After this is done and nothing big has exploded on the screen telling you something has gone bonkers, revert the tag to it’s first state without the
setup="1"attribute and reload and voila, a search form has appeared.
Maybe that’s the reason. I’d make a backup of your db before you install it as it modifies the db and may no longer be compatible with the most recent version.
Another option may be to use glz_custom_fields, which may be necessary anyway if you have a lot of custom fields and categories to deal with. You have to buy it but it is worth it, particularly in combination with sed_section_fields.
Last edited by jakob (2008-04-02 07:43:20)
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#9 2008-08-29 02:34:25
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Re: Is it possible to create a multiple input search form?
Hi Frotzed,
How did you go with your problem? I’ve got ob1_advanced_search working on 4.0.6 fine, but am in need of much the same solution – ability to restrict the search query using additional inputs (ie state, article category, etc). See my post here
I’d be very interested in hearing what you ended up doing!
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