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#1 2009-12-16 10:21:49

koobs

Member

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 27

txp:search_input form troubles

Hi all,

Apologies if I’ve missed something obvious here… I have a search field in the sidebar that appears on all pages. When using the default <txp:search_input /> everything worked fine but I wanted a little more control over the html so I tried to add a txp form.

Now it doesn’t seem to acknowledge section=“search” as the destination page, always reverting to the home/default page. So my url looks like http://example.com/?q=searchterm instead of http://example.com/search/?q=searchterm after I initiate a search.

Here is the code in my page

<txp:search_input form="search_input" section="search" />

and the form:

<form action="<txp:site_url />">
			<input type="text" name="q" value="Search..." />
			<input type="submit"  class="button orange" value="Search" />
</form>

Anyone have any idea why section=“search” doesn’t seem to be recognised.

thanks

#2 2009-12-16 11:05:21

redbot

Plugin Author

Registered: 2006-02-14

Posts: 1,410

Re: txp:search_input form troubles

Hi,
usually I output the search form directly with an “output_form” tag.
Anyway you can try (not tested) omitting the section="search" from the “search_input” tag and replacing in your form

<form action="<txp:site_url />">

with:

<form action='<txp:site_url /><txp:section name="search" />'>

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#3 2009-12-16 11:19:09

koobs

Member

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 27

Re: txp:search_input form troubles

redbot wrote:

Hi,
usually I output the search form directly with an “output_form” tag.

Thanks – didn’t think of that – makes more sense

Anyway you can try (not tested) omitting the section="search" from the “search_input” tag and replacing in your form

FYI this also works

Thanks very much

#4 2009-12-16 21:35:13

thebombsite

Archived Plugin Author

From: Exmouth, England

Registered: 2004-08-24

Posts: 3,251

Website

Re: txp:search_input form troubles

You could improve on that with:-

<input type="text" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search...') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search...';}" />

Plus you could give both inputs an id to improve selectivity in the CSS. Just a couple of suggestions.

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Stuart

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