Search with Radio Buttons

Hi, Jerry -

Thanks for your note. I was on the same path. I've managed to get it working - but it's a bit restrictive.

<form action="search.php" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="35" placeholder="Search"  value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(@$FORM['q']); ?>" >
  <input type="table" name="table" value="arts" />
  Articles
  <input type="table" name="table" value="news" />
  News
  <input class="search-submit" type="submit" />
</form>

What I would like to do is somehow change the key-value parts of the query string (hi-lighted in red above). The default is:

q=searchterm

It would be nice if I could somehow change this according to which radio button is pressed.

So, if the Articles button were depressed it would be:

arts=searchterm

And if News is selected it would be:

news=searchterm

Or something along these lines.

:0s

Perchpole

Update!

Actually, this does work...

<form action="search.php" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="<?php @$GET['table'] ?>" maxlength="35" placeholder="Search"  value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(@$FORM['q']); ?>" >
  <input type="table" name="table" value="arts" />
  Articles
  <input type="table" name="table" value="news" />
  News
  <input class="search-submit" type="submit" />
</form>

More experimentation needed!

:0)

Perch

Hi Perchpole

I'll let Jerry get back to you on his idea and wanted to share mine with you :).

If I understand what you are aiming for, you could just make the value of each radio button the same as the table name you want it to search. A really basic example:

<form action="">
<input type="radio" name="searchTable" value="news">Search News<br>
<input type="radio" name="searchTable" value="arts">Search Arts
</form>

Then, on the results page, you would have your get records and put the value of the radio button as the table to load like this:

$searchTable = mysql_real_escape_string( @$_REQUEST['searchTable'] );

if ( !$searchTable ) { $searchTable = 'news'; }

list($searchResults, $searchResultsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   =>  $searchTable ,
    'loadUploads' => true,
    'allowSearch' => false,
  ));

I added in the first two lines there so there is always a default value in $searchTable. This will take into account situations where a visitor will go directly to your search results page. 

Let me know if this helps :)!