[RESOLVED] idea needed! two looks one main and one with result!

[spiritssight]

Hello all,

I am going to be writing the code to have either display one way or another way depending on if person as done a search

if you look at google or live the first screen you see is a very very basic screen which has a search box on them now if you type in something and the hit search you get a different screen

ok now this is what I want to do which is the same idea.

now I get that I can have a if() statement and if the button has been submited then display the screen that shows results along with the search box at the top of the screen, and if the submit has not is not set then display the basic

I would like to use one file to do the displaying and another to process the form of either displaying

Does this make any sence?

Thanks ahead of time!

Sincerely,
Christopher

[spiritssight]

Ok, this is what I have so far to do the above:

<?php

if(empty($_GET['q'])) // if there is no ?q=... whatever then this displays

{
echo '
<div class="Search">
<div class="Main_Logo">
<p class="site_name">Disability Info Seek</p>
</div>
<center>
<form action="search.php" method="post">
<input class="search" type="text" name="search" size="50" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="Search" value="search" /><input type="submit" name="Advance Search" value="advance_search" />
</center>
</div>
';
}
else // if there is ?q=... whatever then this displays
{
echo "Your searching for: ".$_GET['q'];
}

?>

Sincerely,
Christopher

[alanzhao]

maybe:

<?php

     if(empty($_GET['q'])) // if there is no ?q=... whatever then this displays { 

                 include_once("search_form.php");

     } else {

                include_once("result_page.php");
     }

[spiritssight]

Ok, I have made some more changes to this to clean it up some with repeat codes:

This is the file that has the information for the displaying of either search box screen:

<?php

if(empty($_GET['q'])) // if there is no ?q=... whatever then this displays

{
$_GET['q'] = "";
include '/home/dev/www/search_box.php';
}
else // if there is ?q=... whatever then this displays
{
include '/home/dev/www/search_box.php';

echo "Your searching for: ".$_GET['q'];

}
?>

This is the file that is being included in the script in above:

<?php
echo '
<div class="Search_box">
<form action="search.php" method="post">
<input class="search_box" type="text" name="search" size="50" value="'. $_GET['q'] .'"/>'; if(empty($_GET['q'])){echo '<br />';}echo' 
<input type="submit" name="Search" value="search" /><input type="submit" name="Advance Search" value="advance_search" />
</div>
';
?>

Any other ideas on making this better please pass along :-)

Sincerely,
Christopher

[alanzhao]

You're on the right track.

[spiritssight]

How can I make the code below any better so that I have as much contral over the layout of the form, I use this form for two different displays, if person has not submited the string for a search it displays in the center of the screen with the field over the submit button, and on the screen where it shows results the form has the submit button after and on the same line. Any help on geting this to work that way would be great, I am not sure how to get this to stay under the site_bar (this is where it says welcome and also has some links to sign in and other things) I use divs for that also.

<?php

<?php
echo '
<form action="index.php" method="get">
<div class="'; if(empty($_GET['sq'])){echo 'main_search_box';}else{echo 'result_search_box';} echo '">
	<div class="'; if(empty($_GET['sq'])){echo "main_search_box_f";}else{echo "result_search_box_f";} echo '">
	<input class="search_box" type="text" name="sq" size="50" value="'; if(isset($_GET['sq'])){echo $_GET['sq'];} echo ' "/>
	</div>
	<div class="'; if(empty($_GET['sq'])){echo "main_search_sb";}else{echo "result_search_box_sb";} echo '
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
	</div>
</div>
</form>
';
?>

Sincerely,
Christopher

[benracer]

also from what i have read its quicker to close the <?php ?> and then open them after the html instead of using echo for large pieces of html

[spiritssight]

So how would you of coded this using <?php ?> instead of the echo (s)?

Not sure I get what you mean.

Sincerely,
Christopher

[benracer]

well, when you use an if statement anything between the { and } will be used. So for example,

<?php if ( 1 == 1 ){ ?>
<table><tr><td>Hello World</td></tr></table>
<?php } ?>

is faster than...

<?php
if ( 1 == 1 ){
echo '<table><tr><td>Hello World</td></tr></table>';
}
?>

it does not look as "nice" but is faster.

[spiritssight]

Thanks, I will have to go through the code when i am at the point of lanuching the site and do all that kind of stuff and make it fast and improvments.

Sincerely,
Christopher