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So all of my entries use the Pages module, and the Pages page_url’s are attributed to my navigation links. All works well there.

With search results, it looks like the correct page_url’s are being returned, but when I click one from results, the page brought up has the content displayed without the styles and images. But if I were to click the identical link from the navigation, it works. Here is my search results tag set:

{exp:search:search_results}
<a href="http://{page_url}">{title}</a>            
{/exp:search:search_results}

Here’s a link to an entry that works when clicked from the main navigation:
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/what_are_you_packaging/coffee

That exact same link is reported in search results, but again, returns a page that does not utilize the template’s image or stylesheet links correctly.

It’s weird. I mouseover the link from navigation and mouseover the link in search results and they are identical.

I figured something out. The navigation links, using pages URLs are formed correctly:

http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/what_are_you_packaging/coffee

But the search results are putting a trailing slash on the end:

http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/what_are_you_packaging/coffee/

How do I get search results using the {page_url} to leave off the trailing slash?

Hi gcylinder,

Is there a trailing slash in your pages tab in the entry?

That is a lot of extra work you are doing when there is a much simpler way of getting your desired results with out having to set a page for each entry.

I would suggest you read this blog series we have (starting at the bottom and working your way up). It explains the use of using the entry url_title as the address rather than creating a page for each entry.

Best regards,

Barry

No, there is no trailing slash in my entries.

I appreciate the suggestion. I can’t use the url_title for the address because several pages have the same url_title. It doesn’t seem like that much more work to give each entry a Page URL vs selecting a category anyway. Besides that, this is how the site has already been set up, so I wouldn’t have time to go back and re-hash everything now. I just wanted to know why the search results pull that trailing slash out when one doesn’t exist in the entry.

At any rate, I seem to have solved the issue with the search results by forming it this way. Thanks again for your response.

{exp:search:search_results}
<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php{page_uri}">{title}</a>
            
{/exp:search:search_results}

Hi gcylinder,

I am glad that version works 😊  We used to have trailing slashes everywhere.  It appears we have missed one in the search results. Once replicate the issue I’ll get it added as a bug so we can deal with it.

As for the URL_titles being the same: You can make the URL_title be anything you want. So where you would add the last unique bit you could instead change the URL_title to be what you want.

A thought for future projects. It is not a lot of extra work but it takes away a lot of the cool automatic things expression engine can do for you.

Best regards,
Barry

Cool. Thanks for looking into that. Not a huge issue, but it seems simple enough to change if you replicated it on your end.

On the URL_titles, my initial thought was that it’s just as easy to add a Pages uri as it is to enter different URL_titles. So that’s how it went. The build was easy either way and I don’t need it to do anything magical beyond that, but I take your point for future builds that require more flexibility.

Do!  You will never go back. Even for the simple stuff! 😊 

Please feel free to post again with any future issues!