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Is it possible to run a search by a url segment (without the AutoSearch method explained here: http://expressionengine.com/wiki/AutoSearch/)?

We’re using EE to return XML to Flash, and the Flash swf needs to request xml for everything by url segments, which is fine for everything but search. If I have a url like:

/questions-xml/search/SEARCHTERM/

How can I use {segment_3} to search entries? I don’t believe the Flash can follow a url redirect that submitting the form would require, unless I’m wrong about that. I’m plenty comfortable with manually querying things (doing that a lot for this complicated profile > question > answer > response structure), so if it needs to be done that way, that’s cool too, I just don’t know where to start.

Thanks,
Pete

How are you doing the search?  What if you used PHP on input with the Input Class?

-greg

Ideally we’d just use EE’s built in search. I’m fine with using the Input Class to get the segment, but how to I post that segment to the search results processor? Would I need to disguise it as a POSTed search term?

I am afraid the Autosearch article you linked to in your initial posting is the closest you can get without some custom coding. If you want to go down that route, let me know and we can move this thread over to Howto.

Sure, any help would be great, thanks Ingmar.

Moved as per request.

I could do something like this:

<?php
global $IN;
$from= $IN->fetch_uri_segment('4');
?>

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" dynamic="{dynamicTag}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="15" 
disable="member_data|trackbacks" <?php if($from != ""){echo "search=\"".$from."\";}?>}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Just change the parse order on preferences.

Latitude, that makes sense, thanks. I was stuck in trying to get the actual Search function working, completely forgot about the search weblog:entries parameter. Will that work with the “Title” field too?

Latitude, that makes sense, thanks. I was stuck in trying to get the actual Search function working, completely forgot about the search weblog:entries parameter. Will that work with the “Title” field too?

It should work. The search params has a lot of options in there
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Good I could help