SEARCH RESULTS PAGE TELLTALES (THINK BREADCRUMBS) - Jan 3rd, 2014
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I needed to create a telltale on a search results page to remind visitors of the search criteria they had entered in a
search form.
Everything in the telltale was pretty straight forward (I left the Status (a list field) search, and the all listings
search as an example) until I got to the listing age searches.
I wanted to be able to filter the results to only those listings that were created less than either 1, 2, or 3 months
ago, and the telltale was returning long date/time indicators instead of just how many months old the listings shown
would be.
With a lot of help from Dave Edis, Senior Developer at Interactive Tools, Here’s the solution we came up with:
<table width="40%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<form method="POST" class="arial_14" action="listings-s.php">
<tr>
<td class="arial_14"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Show Listings: </b></font></td>
<td colspan="3"><select name = "status_match"width="300" class="arial_14" style="width: 300px" >
<option value="">All Listings</option>
<?php foreach (getListOptions('listing', 'status') as $value => $label4): ?>
<option value = "<?php echo $value;?>" <?php selectedIf($value, @$_REQUEST['status']);?>> <?php echo
$label4; ?></option>
<?php endforeach ?>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="arial_14"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Date Listed: </b></font></td>
<td colspan="3">
<select name="months_ago" width="300" class="arial_14" style="width: 300px">
<option value="">All Dates</option>
<option value="1">Listed less than 1 Month ago</option>
<option value="2">Listed less than 2 Months ago</option>
<option value="3">Listed less than 3 Months ago</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="arial_14"><b> </b> </td>
<td align="left" colspan="3"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" ></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
And On The Results Page
<?php
if (@$_REQUEST['months_ago']) {
$monthsAgo = $_REQUEST['months_ago'];
$_REQUEST['createdDate_min'] = mysql_datetime(strtotime("-$monthsAgo month"));
}
?>
<?php
$searchCriteria = '';
if (@$_REQUEST['status_match']) { $searchCriteria .= "Status: {$_REQUEST['status_match']} - "; }
if (@$_REQUEST['months_ago']) { $searchCriteria .= "Listed Less Than: {$_REQUEST['months_ago']} months ago - "; }
$searchCriteria = chop($searchCriteria, ', '); // remove trailing , or spaces
$searchCriteria = chop($searchCriteria, '- '); // remove trailing - or spaces
?>
<div align="center"> <span class="arial_14"> There are <?php echo $listingMetaData['totalRecords']; ?> listings that
match your search for:
<?php if ( @!$searchCriteria ):?>
All Listings
<?php else :?>
<?php echo $searchCriteria ?>
<?php endif ?>
</span>
<a href="search.php"><span class="arial_14">
<< <u>Return to the Advanced Search Page</u></span></a></div>
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