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They have: 77 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

I have a search script that searches thumbnails and displays the correct results. I.e search for kate moss and it displays all thumbnails with kate moss in the results. I want to add a directory to it, listing all the celebs contained within the search engine. The easiest way to do this would be to link direct to the search results - however I am having trouble determing what the link would actually need to be.....

My website is oldsocks.co.uk

I thought to link to kate moss results it would be something like-

oldsocks.co.uk/search.php?kate moss

Quite clearly it isn't - so if anybody could shed some light on how I can actually link direct to a search result page???

It would help me alot.

Suzanne's picture

She has: 5,512 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

what's your query???

search.php?fieldname=kate+moss

They have: 77 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

http://www.oldsocks.co.uk/search.php?txtSearch=kate+moss

it would be this - but that simply displays the search script with the search query in the box - it doesnt bring up any results

Suzanne's picture

She has: 5,512 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

well, lol... you have it all hidden -- if you do that, you won't have an url to use.

Generally you test to see if a variable has a value, and if it does, you display something different.

i.e.

<?php
if (!$_POST['cmdsearch']) {
    if (
$search != '') {
       
// display the results
   
} else {
       
// display the search form
   
}
} else {
   
$search = $_POST['cmdsearch'];
   
// display the results
}
?>