Search setup using simple_form on submit just goes to my site’s home page
Development and Programming
Hi Tom,
The Search Module does not directly POST to your results page. It is designed to POST to EE’s index.php, which routes the request to the appropriate module and method via the ACT parameter (see the action_ids found in your exp_actions table). The module does its thing (in this case, takes the POST data, does a search and stores a result in the database) and only then redirects you to your results page, where the search_results tag will fetch the appropriate result from the database.
An example of action_id in action can be found in our Module Development Tutorial.
There are probably a few ways to hack around this, but they’d be outside the scope of support we can offer. In the long run, I think the best approach would be to try to get your site using EE more natively. You could still use the Query Module to run SQL in your templates, so doing a bare-minimum port of your custom index.php to a real EE template may not be a big deal. In any case, hope this helps clarify and get you on the right track!
Ugh, my home page is highly complex. Just so I have it straight, you can only use EE’s search functionality if your index page is generated by EE? That doesn’t sound right.
I was going to try detecting if the post variables are set and then resubmitting them via PHP or something to the search/results page but it sounds like that wouldn’t even work correct?
Hi, Tom. Since this is beyond the scope of normal EE support, I’m moving this over to the Development and Programming forum.
Hey Tom,
What is it about your home page that made you choose to not use EE’s index.php file? As Brandon indicated, EE handles URLs in a number of ways which requires the routing code in /index.php.
Have you considered using EE’s index.php file and using an EE template with PHP enabled for your site’s custom home page code? This approach would make it easier to use and support EE’s core functionality out of the box (including some 3rd party add-ons as well)
Regards, Erik
Erik,
My site had been up and running for years before I added EE functionality to it. I just want EE to handle the articles and reviews section and nothing else. EE is an addition to my site, not the site itself.
I’m surprised that my setup seems so uncommon that something like this hasn’t come up elsewhere (or who knows maybe it has).
Unless I find a hack-around I’m probably going to have to write my own search results module as I really don’t want to port over my home page to EE.
Tom