Dizkus

Hi,

I am trying to learn to write modules. I have a good start, but I'm trying to add a search box. I studied the search block and search module, but still can't figure this thing out.

This is my code snippet:



What I want is the search term to appear at the end of the url:

modules.php?op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search&query=

line such as:

modules.php?op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search&query=dog

Right now when I click on the search button, the page goes to modules.php?op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search&query=

I can't get it to append the search term to the end of that line.

Can anyone help me out on this?

Thanks,
Grant

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OK, a bit of web surfing lead me to using



to get the post data. I'd still like to know how to append it to the end of the URL above, if someone can help me with that.

Thanks,
Grant

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I may be getting closer...

I changed the code to:


and now when I search, the search term is appended, so it looks like this in my browser:

modules.php?op%3Dmodload%26name%3Dtestmodule%26file%3Dindex%26mode%3Dsearch%26query=test

I guess the = and &'s are escaped out.

Anyways, now I'm getting an error that says:

Sorry, you can't access this file directly...

If I hand-edit the URL and change the %3D's to = and %26's to &, then the URL seems to work like I want it to. I'm not sure how to keep the characters from escaping though. I guess PostNuke doesn't like that.

I feel like I'm getting close, but any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Grant

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Don't use:

I question whether that would ever work.

Try this:


Or another way:


Keep in mind that NONE of this is pnAPI compliant.

-Chris

Is a Search plug in even able to be written API? All the search plugs I looked in to seemed to be a mix of API and Non API code.

It's just as easy to set the action to be "index.php?module=testmodule&func=search" and then have your pnuser.php file include the function testmodule_user_search() and then make sure to get all your arguments using pnVarCleanFromInput(). And use either pnHTML or pnRender to return your output.

If you are writing a search plugin for the existing search module then you can still use the pnRender or pnHTML method in your search_testmodule_opt() and search_testmodule() functions in your includes/search/testmodule.php file. You don't even need to have all the code in the search_testmodule() function. Just load the API for your module and call pnModFunc('testmodule','user','search'); and then have all the search code located in your pnuser.php and pnuserapi.php files in the testmodule_user_search and testmodule_userapi_search() functions. Just return the final result back to the search_testmodule() function inside includes/search/testmodule.php.

I don't see why this couldn't be 100% API compliant.

-Chris

R3ap3r,

Thank you for your help. You second example worked fine. I tried the first suggestion, but it kept sending me to

modules.php?query=something.

It didn't seem to want to add the op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search after modules.php. Maybe it's the question mark messing it up?

Thanks,
Grant

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