[SOLVED] HOW TO: Create a search using predefined select (dropdown) inputs?

I'm not sure, if would work together with &resources to filter only resources which are in the given parents and in the resources-list.
May be, getResources will show all resources, which are in the given parents and all which are in the resources-list.

perhaps you can try or for more parents:

[ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 14 years, 10 months ago.]

Thanks Bruno. One last question, is it possible to make the snippet only execute when the form is submitted? Instead of the snippet executing when the page loads?

Hi, I was trying to achieve the same thing, could you summarize how you did this?

I would like to create a search using select inputs rather than typing a search word into a text input.
If there were 3 select (dropdown) inputs, the search would only bring back results that contained ALL 3 selected inputs.

Simplesearch using select inputs would't work as this would bring back results with ANY of the 3 selected inputs.

Is there a way of doing this with getResources?

getResources could do such a search, but it wouldn't know which input options were selected. You'd want to put these in the &where property of getResources.

I'd suggest writing a custom search snippet that gets the selected inputs from the $_POST array. If you need the bells and whistles of getResources, you can call it in your snippet with $modx->runSnippet('getResources', $fields), where $fields is an associative array containing the properties you'd normally put in the getResources tag.

Another way to go would be to create the where array in a snippet called getWhere and do this: