Search Action

Dada78

Hello, I have a seatch page which searches my MySQL DB for certain information. The weird thing is when I hit submit on the search page it redirects to my home page(index.php) instead of the results page. I have even passed the entier URL in the action for the form and still redirects me to Index.php

Form on search page

<form action="http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/index.php?page=parks/advanced_results" method="get" name="search">
      <input name="q" type="text" value=" <?php echo $q; ?> "  <input name="search" type="submit" value="Search" style="float: right"></form>

Link to page
http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/index.php?page=parks/advanced_search

Roger_Ramjet

It is setup to post to index.php ?? And it seams to work.

Rodney_H_

Yes, why not make the action="advanced_search.php" or whatever?

/ off topic /

Also, your text input has two empty spaces in it: <input name="q" type="text" value=" " size="15">

And the top search bar is way over to the right (breaking your layout) when viewed in Firefox.

Dada78

No it is suppose to post to here.

http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/index.php?page=parks/advanced_results

I found what I think might be the error. I think it is conflicting with the site search on the index page, but then again this page right here.

http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/parks/search.php

Doesn't conflict with it and it's the same script just on one page.

It is suppose to post to this page.

http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/index.php?page=parks/advanced_results

Not sure how to tackle this.

Dada78

Rodney H. wrote:
Yes, why not make the action="advanced_search.php" or whatever?

/ off topic /

Also, your text input has two empty spaces in it: <input name="q" type="text" value=" " size="15">

And the top search bar is way over to the right (breaking your layout) when viewed in Firefox.

Yes it used to be ?page=parks/advanced_search I just used the full URL for trouble shooting to narrow down things. Also you probable saw this

while i was in the middle of editing it.

That's also weird about the search box. I use FF and have no problems with it and no one else using FF has said anything about it and I have asked. I know in I.E. it cause problems, thanks for informning me though. I still have a lot of work to do on it before it's done though.

Roger_Ramjet

Same for me with FF. I'm using version 1.0.7 though and earlier versions may not have this problem.

Just looked at your source and you seem to have several <head> and <body> sections in the same page - some of them, or it, after the </html> tag ????? I'm surprised that any of it works.

Dada78

What the hell...LoL I have been noticing this on alot of my pages an don't know how they are getting there. Could you tell me which page this is? Do you think you are seeing the tags for the the index, then the tags for the content that is being passed throught the template maybe? I am also using 1.0.7. I have to do some CSS work and clean alot of things up. Just trying to get all this php stuff working first.

do you have a suggestion of why the conflict with the two search boxes?

-Thanks

Dada78

Yea the double head tags and what not you are seeing is because your are viewing the code from the template that the content passes through and the tags for the content that is including. I am not real concerned with that as it seems to not be possing any issues.

Rodney_H_

OK, so if you have two forms posting to the same page, can you include hidden fields to distinguish them, and include logic to filter how to process each of the two forms? Or did you already figure it out?

Dada78

No I didn't think of that, thank you for the suggestion. I think thier is a misunderstanding though. I only have one form post to one page. The search box on the index page is to a google search that searches the web or web site. it doesn't go to the MySQL DB. I think I understand what you are talking about. Are you referring to this,

<input type="hidden" form action="?page=parks/advanced_search.php" method="get" name="search"><input name="q" type="text" value="search" size="15">

-Thanks

Rodney_H_

Oh, well, sort of... but hey, I think I found something of relevence, DADA.

You have this code:

<form action="http://www.texascampingforum.com/2006/index.php?page=parks/advanced_results" method="get" name="search">
      <input name="q" type="text" value=" <?php echo $q; ?> "  <input name="search" type="submit" value="Search" style="float: right">
</form>

Your text input name="q" is not closed and the submit button has the name="search". However, if you are checking on the page you are posting to, your action page, if "submit" is set, you might want to try this:

<form action="index.php?page=parks/advanced_results" method="get">
<input name="q" type="text" size="20" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>

Dada78

Thanks for trying, but that didn't work ether. I even competely removed the the google search box from the index page to see of that was the conflict and it wasn't. I don't know what it redirects to the index.php. I am all out of ideas, and about it just kick this site to the curb and move on.

-Thanks for your help.

Rodney_H_

Can you post the code that is processing the submitted form? Could be that is where to problem exists?

PS. I posted an image (on a testing site) of what the site looks like using firefox 1.0.7: http://members.lycos.co.uk/true2life/images/texas_camping.gif