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#1 2005-11-11 02:34:06

lucashaley

Member

Registered: 2005-02-17

Posts: 11

I seem to have messed up searching

Heya all —

So in developing a site, I seem to have messed up searching. I have a search box going, but the page it returns has no contents.

My default page has the following:

<!-- center -->
<div id="content">
<txp:output_form form="motif-skull" />
   <txp:article />
<txp:output_form form="motif-ship" />

   <txp:if_individual_article>
   <p>
   <txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev>
   <txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next>
   </p>

   </txp:if_individual_article>
   <txp:if_article_list>
   <p>
   <txp:older>Previous</txp:older>
   <txp:newer>Next</txp:newer>
   </p>
   </txp:if_article_list>
</div>

And I have the default search-results form. Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks!

-Lucas

Last edited by zem (2005-11-11 02:49:48)

#2 2005-11-11 02:51:19

zem

Developer Emeritus

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

When you say “no contents”, do you mean a completely blank zero-length page, or that it displays a normal page with no articles?

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Alex

#3 2005-11-11 02:54:31

lucashaley

Member

Registered: 2005-02-17

Posts: 11

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

Sorry, it renders the page, but has no results. I’ve used search terms that I know will return results.

Thanks —

-Lucas

#4 2005-11-11 04:46:44

zem

Developer Emeritus

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

Do the appropriate sections have “Include in site search?” set to Yes under presentation > sections?

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Alex

#5 2005-11-11 18:13:33

lucashaley

Member

Registered: 2005-02-17

Posts: 11

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

Yep. I just double-checked.

-Lucas

#6 2005-11-11 20:37:36

zem

Developer Emeritus

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

A few things to (double) check:

Does the search input form really go to the section you think it does? Does that section really use the page template above?

Does the search term work when you search Title & Body from textpattern > content > articles?

Try some other search terms, including something trivial like a.

Is the search results form named search_results (not search-results), and is the Type set to article?

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Alex

#7 2005-11-11 22:40:32

lucashaley

Member

Registered: 2005-02-17

Posts: 11

Re: I seem to have messed up searching

Alex —

thanks for all your help! You were right — my page named “default” was not actually the site default page. Once I added an <txp:article /> tag to the site default page, “home”, then it worked.

Thanks again.

-Lucas