If anyone is interested, it is currently possibly to do auto searches in ExpressionEngine with a little bit of know how.  Observe this on my own weblog for various topics:

Rick Ellis
ExpressionEngine
Apple hardware

All it takes is a well designed template using the advanced search form with most fields preset and the keywords field set by segment.  Then, submit the form on load.

Thought a few of you might be interested, especially since EE 1.4 is going to allow custom fields and more variables in the search results.

Paul Burdick - 20 October 2005 03:04 PM

Thought a few of you might be interested, especially since EE 1.4 is going to allow custom fields and more variables in the search results.

There, you’re doing it again!

This is actually seriously cool, by the way.

Someone should really create an EE rumor site, especially considering the CTO and CEO do not know how to shut up.

Custom fields in search results…Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

Cookie Monster wants more!  More info!  mmm…...

I can’t seem to get the above code to work with categories. I have a list of categories on my homepage (based on the categories in my ‘article’ weblog) that I want to be links to search results for that category.

I’m using a generic word as a keyword that I know will appear in every article (that’s the only way I’ve been able to figure out how to search for ‘all’ within that category.

Here is the code in my search/auto template:

And here are the two ways I’ve tried to set up the links:

and

It seems to be ignoring the categories and instead just returns every article.

If you want to see what’s happening, it’s at:

http://64.62.135.203/

Just click one of the links in the green box on the right. (By the way, the regular search works fine).

By the way, the reason I’m not doing it as Paul did it in his example is that the titles of our categories will rarely turn up in the actual articles as keywords.

Thanks for any help!
Ken

Well, if you notice, your links look like ‘C73’, which is the category ID with a C on the front.  So, basically, the search expects only the ID and not the ‘C’ on the front.  If you simply want to display all the entries in a category, you can just do that exact same manner of link to a page showing Weblog Entries and EE will see the URL and display all of the entries in that category.

http://64.62.135.203/content/method/article/C73/

Thanks Paul. Actually, I was trying to get the articles to show up as search results, because our articles can be pretty long and it just seems less weblog-like to do it this way (among other reasons). Also, once I have all the articles published, they will be in the hundreds.

I got it working with a combination of your suggestion above (removing the ‘C’ from the URL) and another post, here:

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/11199/

I’ve made so many adjustments and changes over the last two days, and read so many forum posts, that I’m not really sure this is the best way to do this, but here is the code I’m using, just in case it’s useful to somebody else, or in case you have any suggestions for making it more efficient, etc. Now that it’s working, I’m afraid to even open the templates!!

search/auto template:

And here is the list of links:

You can see it here:
http://64.62.135.203 - click one of the links in the green box

very nice solution, but it works only for words without foreign sign, if you try using it with it, you get

maybe this will be improoved in EE2.0

What browser are you using? Although umlauts and such are technically invalid in a URL, I have never had problems with that. (My testsite)

Tested with Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

hmm strange…

I tried the same word, but the same problem, maybe is something with the html on that auto page
http://www.zooshopamazona.hr/pretraga/auto/Österreich
here you can try something

and this is the code, maybe I’m missing something

This message almost always means the server is trying to set an unsafe cookie. You can try to edit core.input.php around line 410 change:

into

When you get the message again it will also show the key that’s triggering the error.

thanx ingmar, but without result.
maybe is something in the code, can you compare it with yours?

thanx

Ingmar Greil - 21 October 2008 02:29 PM

This message almost always means the server is trying to set an unsafe cookie. You can try to edit core.input.php around line 410 change:

exit('Disallowed Key Characters');

into

exit('Disallowed Key Characters: '.$str);

When you get the message again it will also show the key that’s triggering the error.

I remembered that I didn’t deleted cache…
Now I get the error.. but for me, it doesn’t mean anything :(

for search /pretraga/auto/kunić
Disallowed Key Characters: /pretraga/auto/kuni

Thanx Ingmar

What browser are you using? What encoding? Looks like ‘ć’ is actually translated into two unprintable characters. I can only assume it’s got to do with your server setup, since it works for me. Sorry, this is really not something we can support :(

Ingmar Greil - 30 October 2008 01:41 PM

What browser are you using? What encoding? Looks like ‘ć’ is actually translated into two unprintable characters. I can only assume it’s got to do with your server setup, since it works for me. Sorry, this is really not something we can support :(

hi

I tried in firefox 3 and safari, utf-8
also tried cleaning cookies, but without help :(

normal searching is working great, but this I dont know why not.

do you know where I can search o what to ask my hosting company to change?

thanx

Don’t worry, I don’t expect from you to support this, as is custom work out.

I contacted hosting company, so,, we will see..

Danke

I’m not sure if this point in new version 165 have something to do with it

Modified Cookie key processing to relieve “Disallowed Key Characters” errors in certain environments.

just as a side note… those two strange characters coming up at the end have translated to chinese / japanese characters… not my speciality! Where is the server being hosted????!!!