[SOLVED] Search results not showing

[antony_s]

Hi,

I have made a website with a home page that is a different design to the rest of the site, and doesn't have a content section. When you use the search box, it just refreshes the page and doesn't take you to the search results page - yet this works fine on the rest of the site.

Does it just refresh the page and put the search results on the page you're currently on? That seems a bit odd - I would like it to take the user to a search results page each time - is this possible?

[antony_s]

Perhaps I should be clearer - I have a search field at the top of every page.  Should I just have a separate Search Page?

[scooper]

The default search action does indeed load the results into the content of the current page.
You can redirect the search results to a specifc page though using the 'resultpage' parameter.

So, for example if you create a page with an alias of 'search-results' then you can put {search resultpage="search-results"} into your template and your results will be shown in the new page.

s.

[antony_s]

Brilliant! Thank you for this - works great

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

BTW, almost all tags/plugins/modules have an online help page describing their parameters. And the wiki has template samples.
Have fun with CMSms

Pierre M.

[replytomk3]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

So, I:
1) Created a page called "Search Results". Hide it from menu.
2) Call the module as

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{search resultpage="search-results"}

3) Commented out pointless "time taken" string out of results template
4) Changed settings to track phrases, and not single keywords.