Organize search results

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1

Hi there,
i hope some people are still working with Kirby 2 around here :slight_smile:

I was implementing the search function into the header of a website (global search) and (apart from not being able to get the query into the url) everything worked fine.
But then i tried to organize the search results into the section of the website and stumbled upon a problem:

I can group the results with a function:

<?php
  $callback = function($p) {
  return $p->parents()->last();
};
$groupedItems = $results->group($callback);
?>

But as soon as the results include top-level pages, the whole thing crashed and gives me a “Invalid grouping value for key”.

If i remove the ->last(), it works fine, but then i’ll get too many groups (because if 3rd level children).

How can i display the top-level-pages separately? Probably it would be ideal to show them as its own group or just ungrouped as they are…

2

You could use an if statement

  $callback = function($p) {
    if ($p->depth() > 1) {
      return $p->parents()->last();
    } else {
      return $p;
    }
  
};
3

Thanks a lot, i ended up doing exactly this. Now i can filter for the top-level and show them in a separate block.
One more question, if i may: the search sits right now in the header of the site.
It works fine with this:

<form id="searchform" action="<?php echo $pages->findBy('intendedTemplate', 'search')->url() ?>" method="post">

But i can’t get the resulting search page to display this in the url: ?q=searchterm

I know this has to do with the controller, which only controls the /search page, but i really have no clue how to get the logic into the header…

4

If you use GET instead of POST, you will see the query param in the URL. POST request is not useful for search, I think.

5

perfect. thanks a 100 times…