My search results are not working

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

My search results are not working.

I wrote the code almost exactly like the kirby cookbook example.

The input search box works fine.
And when I do a search, the results page appears.
However, no search results are displayed.

What is the problem? Please help…!
Or is there an example search kit for reference?

http://sciencewalden.org/sciencewalden2/document

search.php

<form>
  <input type="search" name="q" value="<?= html($query) ?>">
  <input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

<ul>
  <?php foreach ($results as $result): ?>
  <li>
    <a href="<?= $result->url() ?>">
      <?= $result->title() ?>
    </a>
  </li>
  <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

search.php - controllers

<?php
return function ($site) {

  $query   = get('q');
  $results = $site->search($query, 'title|text');
  $results = $results->paginate(20);

  return [
'query'   => $query,
'results' => $results,
'pagination' => $results->pagination()
  ];

};
2

Is search.php(the one with the form) a template or a snippet?

Which page actually uses the search.php template? The document page?

When submitting the form, the page url changes, but I wonder why because there is no action attribute in the form element.

3

Oh, I’m so sorry.

Yes, I want the search box to work on the document page.

So I wrote the code on the document page as below.
Should the action’s page url change?

document.php (templete)

<form action="<?= page('search')->url() ?>" autocomplete="off" class="searchbox" method="get">
  <div class="form-group">
    <input class="search" id="search" name="q" onfocus="this.value=''" placeholder="Search..." type="search" value="<?= html($query) ?>">
  </div>
</form>
4

Hm, what is in your search.php template? Something is very weird here.

Also, I would expect your document page to throw an undefined variable error, because $query is probably not defined.

5

Actually I don’t need search.php.
it is a page that is not used and was created after following the kirby example.

How can I define the $query?

6

If you want to do everything via your document page:

  • Instead of search.php template and controller, put everything into the controller/template for the document page (/site/templates/document.php, /site/controllers/document.php)
  • change the action attribute to <?= $page->url() ?>
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7

Thank you, the problem is solved!
But is it impossible to search for structure fields?

8

Kirby should actully search in structure fields as well, but you can’t add fields inside structure fields as search targets.

9

Hm, I wonder, is there any way to work around this limit? On my page I need a fine tuned search and that means I need to exclude some columns of a structure field from a search.

10

No. Not with the built-in search method. You’d have to roll your own if you need more finetuning.

11

Any ideas how to approach this?

I’m not a PHP pro, so the only thing I can come up with right now is to create some hook that on page save or update grabs all the text from a certain structure field column, and merges it all together in a new hidden field. Are there any easier ways that I am overlooking?

12

That would probably be the easiest if you don’t want to write your own search function.

13

Ok, thanks. I think I’ll try the hook to field approach then. :+1: