A little PHP goes a long way.

$result = pods_url_variable('search', 'get');

if (!empty($result)) {
    // Add all your Pods code
}

Anyone?

I also have another problem related to this form. When there are no results it simply removes the search filters and field so you have to use the back button on your browser in order to perform a new search?

Can anybody help with this?

The main problem is using the code I have listed above it simply shows all of the people from my "member_list". Now this is obvious that this will happen since it's using a template that shows all of those members.

But, I only want the search functions to be visible on page entry and not all members.

Please forgive me here but where do I put that code? I've attempted to integrate the code you've given above with the code in my first post but all that I seem to get, when moving things around a bit, is the search filters but when I perform a search nothing appears. I'm presuming I'm putting the code in the wrong place.

Try this:

<?php $result = pods_url_variable('search', 'get');

$Record = new Pod('member');

echo $Record->getFilters('location','search');

if (!empty($result)) {

$result = addslashes($result); 

$Record->findRecords('t.name ASC', 10, "(t.name LIKE '%$result%')");

echo $Record->getPagination(); 

echo $Record->showTemplate('imember_list');

} ?>

I cannot get this new editor to display code properly! Beware of the &quot; above. Sorry.

Thanks for your help with this - much appreciated. I added the following code and whilst it removes the initial member list that appears on the page as you load the search filters, when you then do a search it just doesn't display anything below those filters?

<?php $result = pods_url_variable('search', 'get');

$Record = new Pod('member');

echo $Record->getFilters('location','search');

if (!empty($result)) {

$result = addslashes($result); 

$Record->findRecords('t.name ASC', 10, "(t.name LIKE '%$result%') AND t.live = 1");

echo $Record->getPagination(); 

echo $Record->showTemplate('member_list');
} 
?>

Any ideas?

I've attempted to move around the code above but still all I get is either:

1. Just the search filters and then when I perform a search nothing displays below
2. Nothing on the page at all

Any further help would be greatly appreciated - this is almost the final piece of the puzzle!

Do you have a link you can share?

You should try adding some simple debugging messages to your code, ie:

if (!empty($result)) {
    echo 'not empty';

I think the problem is with the template that is being used to display the results. I'm using a template called "member_list" which is laid out as follows:

<h2><a href="{@detail_url}">{@name}</a></h2>
<p><b>Profile:</b> {@profile} <a href="{@detail_url}">More</a></p>

The thing is if I were to just display this template on it's own then it will list all members I have on my site therefore I'm presuming because this is being used as the display for the search results page then on page load it's showing every member right away even though I'm yet to perform a search, which is when I want to display members.

I'm sorry to hassle once more but can anybody else help with this. I can't seem to get the "if" statement to function correctly as per my post above.

Hi. I've been racking my brains and consequently losing my mind attempting to get this to work and I can't!

I think the main problem with the code that I'm using is that when you initially enter the Search page the "member_list" template is loading right away whereas I really only need that to load when a search has been performed. So I only need the search filters to be visible on the Search page on initial load.

Just to recap the code I'm using:

I'm bring the template in using a shortcode:

[pods name="member" limit="1" template="search_template"]

The search_template is:

<?php $result = pods_url_variable('search', 'get');
$Record = new Pod('member');
echo $Record->getFilters('location','search');
if (!empty($result)) {
$result = addslashes($result); 
$Record->findRecords('t.name ASC', 10, "(t.name LIKE '%$result%') AND t.live = 1");
echo $Record->getPagination(); 
echo $Record->showTemplate('member_list'); } 
?>

The member_list template that loads is:

<h2><a href="{@detail_url}">{@name}</a></h2>
<p><b>Profile:</b> {@profile} <a href="{@detail_url}">More</a></p>

I'd really appreciate some help with this.

FYI, addslashes isn't needed. The pods_url_variable function does its own sanitization.

<?php
$result  = pods_url_variable('search', 'get');

$Record = new Pod('member');
if (empty($result)) {
    echo $Record->getFilters('location','search');
}
else {
    $Record->findRecords('t.name ASC', 10, "(t.name LIKE '%$result%') AND t.live = 1");
    echo $Record->getPagination();
    echo $Record->showTemplate('member_list');
}
?>

Thanks for this - I'm now in limbo with two posts that are now becoming very similar. Sorry about that.

Basically the code that you mentioned above is great in the sense that nothing displays on that page when loaded. If I then perform a text search it comes back with the results. But, and this is really important, if I simply select something from the "location" dropdown and leave the search field empty then no results are found.

Any idea how I get results to show by not having to enter text in the search field?