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Hello,

I have been looking into creating a multiple-field filter based on custom fields from a weblog. It would work something like this

Country: <dropdown>
Price Range: <dropdown>
Type: <dropdown>
<search>

All three are custom fields in the weblog entries. I’ve seen this can be done with Super Search extension, but is there anyway to do this with just Expression Engine?

I’m currently using EE 1.6.7

Thanks.

Have you tried Dynamic Parameters together with search?

Hello,

Thank you for your quick reply. I’m using the following code which works, however is there a way for it to not show all the properties on the first page?

<form action="{path='property/index'}" method="post">
<select name="search:country">
<option value="">Country</option>
<option value="Mexico">Mexico</option>
<option value="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</option>
<option value="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</option>
<option value="Belize">Belize</option>
    </select>
<select name="search:price">
<option value="">Price</option>
<option value="50k-100k">50k-100k</option>
<option value="100k and More">100k and More</option>
</select>

    <select name="search:place">
        <option value="Beachfront">Beachfront</option>
        <option value="Mountain">Mountain</option>
    </select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form> 

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="property" sort="asc" orderby="title" dynamic_parameters="search:country|search:price|search:place" search:country="" search:price="" search:place""} 
{title}
{price}
{place}
{country}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

edit: I’m the same user as marcxdid, just used the wrong login.

ronanmcmahon,

Add a dummy value to your search:counry should do it for you

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="property" sort="asc" orderby="title" dynamic_parameters="search:country|search:price|search:place" search:country="dummy"}

Hi, following this question… How can I populate the dropdown menus based on the custom field options that I added in the admin?

All help appreciated,
Michel

If the fields are drop-down fields that you created the options for them in the admin panel then you could use a plugin I wrote a while back called Custom Drop Down Creator.

If not then you would probably need to either run weblog tags to get at the data or run a custom sql query.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks, Mark. Does that help, Michel?