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Hi

Is the advanced search form able to use the same parameters as the simple search form i.e. ‘search_in’ & ‘where’?

I’m trying to create an advanced form that searches in ‘all’ by default, but the user can use a checkbox to override the form to search for ‘any’ within the ‘where’ parameter… but it’s not quite working properly.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bit of digging around in the code - should have checked first really. Can use the simple form parameters (although can’t see that documented). But there is no where in the code base that EE checks for $_POST vars to override the constructed meta value produced by EE and added as a hidden input.

In fact - even is you remove the ‘where’ from the parameters, and add it to the form as per the documentation here: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/search/advanced.html, it fails to work. As there is no checking on the $_POST data being submitted by the form.

Lee, we recently worked pretty thoroughly on the problems as you are seeing, and you can find some corrective patches in this thread, with hints for any others needed, starting here: Search Issues and Fixes.

As you’ll see, there’s also a bug report.

Hoping this will get you on the air - you’re right, code is presently missing for Advanced Search forms to work. Also, you are correct that the Simple form tag parameters do continue to work on Advanced. Whether form items over-ride will depend on how Ellis finally arranges things. I think they should.

Regards,
Clive

Thanks for this - although I know modifying the core will get it working, I’m inclined to wait for a fix to come from EE.

Hi Lee,

Now that Clive has pointed you at the information related to this issue I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. Please open a related one if required.

Cheers

Greg

@narration, thanks very much for your help.