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Grant29

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 01:11

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:

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$content = "<form method=\"post\" action=\"modules.php?op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search&query=\">";
$content .= "<center><input type=\"text\" name=\"query\" size=\"14\">";
$content .= '<input type="submit" value="Search">';
$content .= '</center>';
$content .= '</form>';
echo $content;

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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Grant29

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 01:21

OK, a bit of web surfing lead me to using

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global $HTTP_POST_VARS;

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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Grant29

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 01:40

I may be getting closer...

I changed the code to:

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$content = "<form method=\"GET\" action=\"modules.php?\">";
$content .= "<center><input type=\"text\" name=\"op=modload&name=hotdeals&file=index&mode=search&query\" size=\"14\">";
$content .= '<input type="submit" value="Search">';
$content .= '</center>';
$content .= '</form>';

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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r3ap3r

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 04:39

Don't use:

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$content .= "<center><input type=\"text\" name=\"op=modload&name=hotdeals&file=index&mode=search&query\" size=\"14\">";

I question whether that would ever work.

Try this:

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$content = "<form method=\"get\" action=\"modules.php?op=modload&name=testmodule&file=index&mode=search\">";
$content .= "<center><input type=\"text\" name=\"query\" size=\"14\">";
$content .= '<input type="submit" value="Search">';
$content .= '</center>';
$content .= '</form>';
echo $content;

Or another way:

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$content = "<form method=\"get\" action=\"modules.php\">";
$content .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"modload\">";
$content .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"name\" value=\"testmodule\">";
$content .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"file\" value=\"index\">";
$content .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mode\" value=\"search\">";
$content .= "<center><input type=\"text\" name=\"query\" size=\"14\">";
$content .= '<input type="submit" value="Search">';
$content .= '</center>';
$content .= '</form>';
echo $content;

Keep in mind that NONE of this is pnAPI compliant.

-Chris
HalbrookTech

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 05:59

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.
r3ap3r

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Posted: 05.05.2004, 09:13

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
Grant29

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Posted: 08.05.2004, 17:11

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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