Custom search box: how do I only search for nodes of a specific content type?

By eriktoyra on 3 May 2007 at 11:15 UTC

I have made a custom content type which I call "FAQ Page". Nodes of this type have a heading (question), body (additional info about hte question), additional body (answer to the question) as well as some vocabularys. I would like to have a "Search the FAQ" function on my "Help Center" page. This search block should only search for nodes of type "FAQ Page" and ignore all other content types. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

I just did this today so

dman commented 3 May 2007 at 11:29

I just did this today so it's freah in my head.

Investigate the source of the form that gives you 'advanced search'
Copy anything that looks useful.
I ended up with:

<form action="/search/node" method="post" id="search-form" class="search-form">
 <div class="form-item">

  <input type="text" class="input-text" value="" size="25" name="keys" /> 

  <input type="image" value="Search" name="op" title="Search" alt="Search" src="/themes/mytheme/images/search-submit.gif" />

  <input type="hidden" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" name="form_token" /> 

  <input type="hidden" value="search_form" id="edit-search-form" name="form_id" />  

  <input type="hidden" name="type[advertiser]" id="edit-type-advertiser" value="advertiser" />

 </div>
</form>

This interesting bits are:

  <input type="hidden" name="type[advertiser]" id="edit-type-advertiser" value="advertiser" />

where advertiser was my node-type
and

  <input type="hidden" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" name="form_token" />

... which I learnt today.

I trimmed a little bit of formatting junk out to make this paste simpler, but this is what you need.

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Thanks!

eriktoyra commented 3 May 2007 at 12:07

Thanks dman! It works like a charm. You really should put that into the Handbook for others to read. So simple yet so useful. :)

For others interested in this. Use dman's code above with his instructions and add it to a block with input format set to PHP. Then you'll have a block which you can use in views, panels etc.

Very cool, but...

jonahan commented 9 January 2008 at 16:50

I have a problem with this. I get:

"Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator."

Weird. I understand that it's most likely the form token, but I did as you guys said. :-\

Nevermind...

jonahan commented 9 January 2008 at 17:01

I somehow deleted the 'name="form_token"' from it which broke things.

Works great now, thanks!!!!

What about multiple content types?

nuvious commented 17 August 2009 at 00:07

How would I edit this to handle multiple types like say:

page, blog, and inventory_item types

but not

job_request, site_response, or client_info types

P.S.

nuvious commented 17 August 2009 at 00:25

Figured out you could just add another hidden field per content type. However is there a way to turn this into a select list?

Not tested, but something

dman commented 17 August 2009 at 01:14

Not tested, but something like

  <select name="type[]">
    <option value="advertiser" >advertiser</option>
    <option value="faq" >faq</option>
    <option value="blog" >blog</option>
  </select>

May do it.

This code is a little dated now (although it still works, there may be better ways)
See also
http://drupal.org/project/search_type
http://drupal.org/project/custom_search_box
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomySearch
and others. These look like D5 mainly :-/

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