By shashi_bi on

Hi

i installed the moviereviews module, i need a search like

i) user can select the value from drop down like title, actor,director,location,etc.,

ii) In text box user enters the search string

suppose user selects the "title" in drop down enters the movie title in text box "xyz movie" . it should search for the title whose title is "xyz movie"

can any one please guide me.

thanks
bsk

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Muslim guy’s picture

Muslim guy commented

Customized HTML Search box

This is a User-search which has `Joe' as the default name in the box

<form action="http://****?q=search/user" method="post" id="search_form" class="search-form">
<input type="text" maxlength="255" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="40" value="joe" class="form-text"><input type="submit" name="op" value="Search Members" class="form-submit"><input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-form" value="search_form"></form>

This is a Node-search (content) which has `win' as the default name in the box

<form action="http://****?q=search/node" method="post" id="search_form" class="search-form">
<input type="text" maxlength="255" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="40" value="win" class="form-text"><input type="submit" name="op" value="Search Content" class="form-submit"><input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-form" value="search_form"></form>

I'd suggest you use an HTML editor to create a drop-down menu, or create a Custom Block to display this search boxes

For Advanced Search (Drupal core search.module) only specific module, use link like this

http://******/?q=search/node/win+type%3Avideo

Where `win' is the default search only in `video' module

Change video to the name of that module `moviereviews'

shashi_bi’s picture

shashi_bi commented

Hi Guy

Thanks for your guidence.

now when the user clicks on submit button, by default it is searching in the moviereview. i have one

more doubt

in search box am adding another drop down with values(title, actors, director, ...etc.,), when the user

selects the value from the drop down and he enters search string in textbox, the search function should

search the movie whose drop down value has the search string.

eg: when i select the "hero" in drop down enters the search string as "Guy" it should display the whose

movie title is "Guy". please guide me. any help would be appreciated.

thanks
bsk

Muslim guy’s picture

Muslim guy commented

Copy the Drupal modules page

You will see the drop down menu selecting Drupal versions

Now you only need to use HTML editor like Mozilla Composer or NVU to get the drop-down menu and discard the rest

I think thats about how I would do it.... :) Normally I just use whatever modules available from Drupal.org

Combining the drop-down menu and search string - I have never done it but this is interesting and I might be working on it and I will show you if one (and you can also showcase your stuff here)

gayathriAthi’s picture

gayathriAthi commented

i would like to have drop down menus to select items before the user enters text in search box.for example i need a drop down list for subjects which drops down all the subjects,a drop down list for authors and another drop down list for books.after selecting from these categories the user can enter text in his search box.is there is any module present in drupal 6 or i have to code.if i have to code please give some guidelines and how to start.thanks.

maromba’s picture

maromba commented

can you please show how you resolved this? where should the code go? how to include it on the search page and in the coded search itself?