Multilanguage search

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Hello,

I have search and multilanguage on my website, however there is one thing I don’t understand. When I use the search as e.g. an English user, I search in the English text files. However when I get the results of the search and I’m on the page where I listed them and I choose another language e.g. German, the query disappears from the url.

$page->url($language->code()) <-- this is the code what I use for changing the language, but I don’t know what should I write after the code(), because I would like to give back the query to the end of the url.

From http://localhost:8000/search?q=asd I get http://localhost:8000/de/search but I would like to get http://localhost:8000/de/search?q=asd

Thank you for your answers!

2

What method do you use for your search form? POST? If you change to GET, that should fix it.

3

I use get method. But I’m thinking about there is a problem with the multilingualism. Because I use this code :

 <?php foreach($kirby->languages() as $language): ?>
      <a class="<?php e($kirby->language() == $language, 'active') ?>" href="<?= $page->url($language->code())?> " hreflang="<?php echo $language->code() ?>"> <?=html($language->name()) ?>
      </a>
  <?php endforeach ?>

And it is opening the basic search page with the language code. But the query disappears.

this is the search:

Screenshot from 2020-02-11 14-44-31
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4

Where’s the point of using the same search for both languages, anyway?

If you change the page, a new request is made to the server and you would have to store your search in the session or something like that to preserver your search.

5

Thank you for your answer! Finally I could made it. I didn’t think about how to store the search.

I really appreciate your help in resolving the problem.