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knutole
knutole

Reputation: 1787

How can I pass a simple search query into the URL?

I have a search form on my site, and I want to pass the text in the form to the URL, like: mysite.com/search.php?q=apples (if search word was apples).
I figure that way people can bookmark their searches.

One solution I thought would be to catch the searchword in search.php and then reload into a new made URL. But it's not very elegant to reload like that. So how can I do it - I mean, how is it normally done? Do I need to use jQuery?

Clarification: I know how to get the vars from the URL in php. What I need is to control the URL that will be opened when the user presses SUBMIT, and the URL needs to contain the user's search word! Just like Google or DuckDuckGo, I put "apples" and the URL becomes ...?q=apples. But - how?! (Then I'll pick that up in the search.php, of course, but I know how to do that.) This is what I have now:

<div id="topnav">
<form action="search.php" method="post">
<input name="searchword" type="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>

Thank you so much.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6896

Answers (5)

ltiong_dbl
ltiong_dbl

Reputation: 3216

how about using the POST-Redirect-GET pattern? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get] also http://blog.andreloker.de/post/2008/06/Post-Redirect-Get.aspx

This would allow you to keep the url in the browser:

yoursite.com/search.php?q=apples

Alternatively, you can use javascript to set the location.hash of the url in the browser w/ the query information after the postback; I suspect this is actually what Google does.

eg,

yoursite.com/search.php#apples

Upvotes: 1

monokh
monokh

Reputation: 1990

Upon reading the clarification. What you need is a search form that submits to your search.php for example: 

<form action="search.php" method="get">
<input type="text" value="search word" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

This will pass whatever value entered in the input named q to the search.php script.

Upvotes: 4

Khurram
Khurram

Reputation: 711

if you have a form then must have declared form methoed POST/GET

in you search.php you can simply do this $_POST['name of the input field'] to get the word string,

and if you want to pass variable in url then you need to make a link through <a href="you URL">Link </a>

Upvotes: 0

ashryalls
ashryalls

Reputation: 308

So the form action would be search.php, the field would be called q and the method would be Get?

You should be able to handle all this from the html form if I'm understanding what it is you're trying to achieve.

Upvotes: 0

Gert
Gert

Reputation: 230

If you post a HTML form which includes a text field with name 'q' and value 'apples' then the URL you want is automatically created by the browser. You definitely don't need JQuery for that.

Upvotes: 1

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