Hi,
I recently had this problem too, and although I know absolutely nothing in PHP I found out a small hack in FlexSearchForm to bypass this annoying error message. The problem is that FlexSearchForm uses the POST method to pass its search query, so reloading the page cannot pass the same parameters again. The trick is to make the snippet use the GET method instead, so that the parameters would be passed within the destination URL. Here’s how to do it:
1) Make sure you make a backup copy of the FlexSearchForm snippet
2) Edit the following section of the code:
// establish form
if (($validSearch && ($showSearchWithResults)) || $showSearchWithResults){
$SearchForm .= '<form class="FSF_form" action="'.$searchAction.'" method="get">';
$SearchForm .= ($xhtmlStrict)? '<fieldset><legend>Search</legend>' : '' ;
// decide what goes in search box
$searchBoxVal = ($searchString == '' && $boxText != '')? $boxText : $searchString ;
$SearchForm .= '<input class="FSF_input" type="text" name="FSF_search" value="'.$searchBoxVal.'" ';
$SearchForm .= ($boxText)? 'onfocus="this.value=(this.value==\''.$boxText.'\')? \'\' : this.value ;" />' : '/>';
$SearchForm .= '<input class="FSF_submit" type="submit" name="sub" value="'.$searchButtonText.'" />';
$SearchForm .= ($xhtmlStrict)? '</fieldset>' : '';
$SearchForm .= '</form>'.$newline;
}
When you’ll do a search query, the URL of the page will appear like that: "
http://mysite.com/alias?FSF_search=myquery" and the web browser will then be able to send back the query when reloading the page, it won’t expire. Hope it will help.
Regards,
- Vince
