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March 30, 2010 5:52am
Subscribe [2]#1 / Mar 30, 2010 5:52am
I have created a search results page which handles search results from a category page.
Users choose a category, type a query and hit search.
How can I pre-populate the results page category drop-down with the same category from which they were searching to allow users to quickly run another search on the same category?
#2 / Apr 23, 2010 7:44am
Can you pass your category name to the URL? Then you could maybe do something like
<option {if segment_x == url_title}selected="selected"{/if} value="...">Category</option>#3 / May 12, 2010 6:23pm
I don’t think this will work, the search URL structure is like this:
/{template_group}/{page}/49bd0f39ac15352404dcc6fc53813cdc/
The large string is obviously the search session number which is made by the system. Since the form is submitted by POST I can’t append any URL params and if I set up my template to place the cat name in the result page:
result_page=”/directory/search/{category}”
The I would end up with a URL like this:
/directory/search/{category}/49bd0f39ac15352404dcc6fc53813cdc/
Which does not work in EE. Really need the cat name/id appended to the end of the URL.
Edit: Also in the search template if I echo out the $_POST array, it comes back empty which is pretty odd. I am working in EE 2.0