I'm using a custom block to search using faceted search and need some help. I've been using the code below to make an initial faceted search - this creates a search box which always appears at the top of the page. It only makes new searches and doesn't search within the results - this is done by the standard faceted keyword search block which then appears on the search results page.

I've just noticed that although the custom search block works fine on my local site, on my remote server it fails to work if a user is logged in - and only then, the error returned is below:

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

Here is the code for the custom block i'm using:

		if ($delta == 0){
			$block['subject'] = '';
			$block['content'] = '
				<form action="/faceted_search/select"  method="post" id="loginbar-faceted-search-ui-form">
				<div id="searchbar-top">
				<input type="text" maxlength="255" name="and" id="edit-and"  size="20" value="Get Headhunting" onfocus="clearDefault(this)" class="form-text" />
				<label class="questionmark"><a href="/help">?</a></label>
				</div>
				<input type="hidden" name="stage" id="edit-stage" value="results"  />
				<input type="hidden" name="style" id="edit-style" value="extract"  />
				<input type="hidden" name="sort" id="edit-sort" value="relevance"  />
				<input type="hidden" name="facet-key" id="edit-facet-key" value=""  />
				<input type="hidden" name="facet-id" id="edit-facet-id" value=""  />
				<input type="hidden" name="facet-sort" id="edit-facet-sort" value=""  />
				<div id="searchbar-submit">
				<input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Search"  class="form-submit" />
				</div
				<input type="hidden" name="form_token" id="edit-faceted-search-ui-form-form-token" value="' . drupal_get_token('faceted_search_ui_form') . '"  />
				<input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-faceted-search-ui-form" value="faceted_search_ui_form"  />
				<div id="browse-button"><a href="/faceted_search/select/-/-/extract/relevance/">Browse</a></div>
				</form>
			';
		}

I'd rather do this in a more drupal way and reuse some of the faceted search module's form code, but i'm not quite sure how.

You can see the search box in action here: http://www.01am.co.uk
Any ideas

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David Lesieur’s picture

David Lesieur commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Just tried your link and did not get any error. Did you manage to fix it?

amcc’s picture

amcc commented

just managed to fix it - had a missing

within a form which seemed to throw the search but only when logged in - so i think it was the problem. Though the question still stands about how to do the above in a more drupal way - ie building a custom form that can submit faceted searches

David Lesieur’s picture

David Lesieur commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

That is another matter... ;) Pro Drupal Development is a good start if you'd like to learn how to build forms (and much more) with Drupal.

Cheers,
David.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

amcc’s picture

amcc commented

Heres the code for my facet search block, the problem as i mentioned above was a missing

I think

Stick this in your block code and you'll have a little faceted search box:

$block['subject'] = '';
$block['content'] = '
<form action="/faceted_search/select"  method="post" id="loginbar-faceted-search-ui-form">
	<div id="searchbar-top">
			<input type="text" maxlength="255" name="and" id="edit-and"  size="20" value="Search for people here" onfocus="clearDefault(this)" class="form-text" />
	</div>
	<input type="hidden" name="stage" id="edit-stage" value="results"  />
	<input type="hidden" name="style" id="edit-style" value="extract"  />
	<input type="hidden" name="sort" id="edit-sort" value="relevance"  />
	<input type="hidden" name="facet-key" id="edit-facet-key" value=""  />
	<input type="hidden" name="facet-id" id="edit-facet-id" value=""  />
	<input type="hidden" name="facet-sort" id="edit-facet-sort" value=""  />
	<input type="hidden" name="form_token" id="edit-faceted-search-ui-form-form-token" value="' . drupal_get_token('faceted_search_ui_form') . '"  />
	<input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-faceted-search-ui-form" value="faceted_search_ui_form"  />
	<div id="searchbar-submit">
		<input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Search"  class="form-submit" />
	</div>
	<div id="browse-button">
		<a href="/faceted_search/select/-/-/extract/relevance/"><img src="/sites/all/themes/zen/hhtv/images/browse-button.png" alt="browse" /></a>
	</div>
	<div id="search-help">
		<a href="/search-help"><img src="/sites/all/themes/zen/hhtv/images/search-help.png" alt="search help" /></a>
	</div>
</form>
';
svnindia’s picture

svnindia commented

How to place a facetsearch text box in a search form, where users can type/input as title:search

Is there any moduels or need to write a custom module

I am integrating with elasticsearch..