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[solved] multiple search forms with simple search

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    mopox Reply #1, 13 years, 4 months ago
    hi community,

    i need to use multiple search formulars with simple search in one page under revo. now i experienced a problem with the id selector of the form tag. It will be allways the same. so it will not run with js or css. i need to use js to submit the form. coz this is done outside of the formular.

    how can i get different id names in the chunk? i am thinking about something like

    <form id="sisea-form-[[+counter]]" ...


    is there an possibility to archive that?

    would be happy about some clue.

    greetings
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      mopox Reply #2, 13 years, 4 months ago
      just figured it out

      <form id="sisea-form-[[+searchIndex]]" ...


      and the call should be

      [[!SimpleSearchForm? &tpl=`SimpleSearchForm` &highlightTag=`strong` &landing=`13` &searchIndex=`search1`]]


      for the first fomular and

      [[!SimpleSearchForm? &tpl=`SimpleSearchForm` &highlightTag=`strong` &landing=`13` &searchIndex=`search2`]]


      for the second one. and so on.

      i put the call in a chunk and called that in the template. But i can call it directly in the template of course.

      thank you
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        Jean-Marc Reply #3, 10 years, 10 months ago
        Awesome. Thank you for that!
          Jean-Marc Buytaert (@jmbuytaert)

          MODX truly is the greatest thing that's ever happened to the Internet.
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          Jean-Marc Reply #4, 10 years, 10 months ago
          Actually, that didn't work. And here's why:

          The [[!simpleSearch]] call on the results page also needs &searchIndex=`whatever-the-search-index-is`, but this: 
          [[!simpleSearch? &searchIndex=`[[+searchIndex]]`]]
          did not work (I tried cached and uncached searchIndex).

          So I had to create a snippet that pulls the $_GET variable from the URL and put that snippet in the simpleSearch call.

          Here's what I did:

          FORM
          <form id="sisea-form-[[+searchIndex]]" ...


          simpleSearchForm Call 1
          [[!simpleSearchForm? ... &searchIndex=`search1`]]


          simpleSearchForm Call 2
          [[!simpleSearchForm? ... &searchIndex=`search2`]]


          simpleSearch Call (for search results)
          [[!simpleSearch? ... &searchIndex=`[[!getSearchIndex]]`]]


          getSearchIndex Snippet
          <?php
	foreach($_GET as $k => $v){
		if($k == "search1") return "search1";
		if($k == "search2") return "search2";
	}


          Hope that helps!
            Jean-Marc Buytaert (@jmbuytaert)

            MODX truly is the greatest thing that's ever happened to the Internet.
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            kubraniec Reply #5, 10 years, 8 months ago
            Good idea. thanks.