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justin kazadi

Friday 08 August 2008 3:01:50 am

hello all,
i want to know how can i modified the default search from by adding for exemple two fields .

i wanna have samethings like this :

<form action={'/content/search'|ezurl()} method='post'>
<label>Country:</label>

<select>
<option name="countries">RDC</option>
<option>BELGIQUE</option>
<option>NORVEGE</option>
</select>

<label>Town:</label>

<select name="towns">
<option>kinshasa</option>
<option>bruxelles</option>
<option>paris</option>
</select>
<label>Tag:</label>
<input type="text" name="SearchText" />
<input type="submit" name="SearchButton" value="search" />
</form>

i have try this but it didn 't work.
i need same suggestion.
thanks in advance

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The practice is when everything works and nobody knows why.
If the practice and theory are met, nothing works and we do not know why.

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Gabriel Finkelstein

Monday 11 August 2008 2:11:57 pm

I think you should better use a filter rather than a search.

Something like:

<form action='some_url' method='get'>

<label>Country:</label>
<select name="country">
<option value="xx">RDC</option>
<option value="xx">BELGIQUE</option>
<option value="xx">NORVEGE</option>
</select>

<label>Town:</label>
<select name="town">
<option value="xx">kinshasa</option>
<option value="xx">bruxelles</option>
<option value="xx">paris</option>
</select>

<label>Tag:</label>
<input type="text" name="SearchText" />
<input type="submit" name="SearchButton" value="search" />
</form>

Where:
some_url = url to a dummy node
xx = id of the town/country for the datatype you are using (if you use objectrelations, then xx = object id)

And inside the template for some_url:

{def $results=fetch(content, tree, hash( parent_node_id, 2,
                                                         attribute_filter, array('and',
                                                                   array('myclass/country','=',$view_parameters.country),
                                                                   array('myclass/town','=',$view_parameters.town),
                                                                 array('myclass/body','like',concat('*',$view_parameters.SearchText,'*')) ))}

Where myclass/country, myclass/town, myclass/body are the class and attributes where you want the search to be performed.