Simple Search - Change template route?

Hi,

Could you post your full simple search tag, so I can see in context what you are trying to do?

Thanks!

Hey James,

Sure, here you go:

{exp:search:simple_form 
    form_class="header-search" 
    where="any" 
    search_in="everywhere" 
    channel="static|homepage|news_resources|case_studies" 
    result_page="{segment_1}/blog/search-results" 
    no_result_page="{segment_1}/blog/noresults"
    }
        <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" placeholder="Search...">
        <input type="submit" id="search-submit" name="submit" value="">
{/exp:search:simple_form}

So as an example of the way the site works, you can access the site via something like example.com/usa/search or example.com/zh/search or example.com/cn/search. We use the first segment to control what contact information is shown.

So I tried a route like this -

/{searchcountry:regex[(zh|cn|usa)]}/search/results/{alpha_dash}/

And while it kinda tries to load the route, it always throws the error

“The action you have requested is invalid.”

Andy

Hi,

If you change your result_page parameter to result_page='{segment_1}/search/results' it should work as you expect.

I’ve tried that, I still get the error -

The following errors were encountered

The action you have requested is invalid.
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Hi,

Hmmm. That should work.

Are you using a member account that has permission to use the search feature?

Are you searching for something that should return results?

Are you setting a route for the no_result_page parameter as well?

Yeah the search without using {segment_1} works completely fine, but when we’re trying to add this segment it always throws this error.

Yep searching for something that would return a result and yep a route is set for both

My url for the search is

example.com/usa/search/results/f182b25cab8bbde323d3f3f7ca21d1d8/

with the route

/{searchcountry:regex[(zh|cn|usa)]}/search/results/{alpha_dash}/

Hi,

I wonder if the {segment_1} isn’t being parsed in the form parameter?

I’ll run this by the team when they come in, and see if we can determine what’s happening. And I’ll try to replicate. What version of ExpressionEngine is this failing on?

Hey James,

It’s on 3.4.1. To give you an idea of the form block, here’s the HTML

I’ve replaced our live URL with example.com as I can’t post publicly, but feel free to email me - andy[at]pillorybarn.co.uk

<form class="header-search" method="post" action="http://www.example.com/" _lpchecked="1">
 <div class="hiddenFields">
  <input type="hidden" name="ACT" value="21">
  <input type="hidden" name="RES" value="">
  <input type="hidden" name="meta" value="KoT6RYQD5DBBXX3OGP+A0MqZgRAJ4R0VgqlYj7jXKdBT9I5RZbrGcdSnxv0R45YuPcUlI3k+Z2op54YjtseSJdSs2nY0RZGFVDFWUy1skSQaibj6PW0beThZrVlVLCcrwJdcPGwk9ueyHrFysAcDUYOCkL9w6OEnFaRcbTnQzj5YNDfcSP9gV+uWRW+ssC1+W+IL2JA6FYd7NczVbGLFc9+N9k7mT1iXhCs9jVFN75VOnXDVjZJm2Gvi8JDcxDwJ74UaiGd0/n8ER4V1nhhkOybHzmWRkI1mnlMyJGl5FYXtMcHKQzTjhdGVELkI30BqrV+5cIUHgVCpBOoBgY2RJSSfB+glZT6jTakY2fc7+7CqNp98+7iRQJqvvk1CqiRUZhnFA9nBj0aA+6DS5NllRH7dpvUv9mccAf5oGY/YPaDLTERHKsMmMHY+tcIuN25zoP0t6jiaV3JwAW2GSgRbnw==">
  <input type="hidden" name="site_id" value="1">
  <input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="ea0bbba7708a5d6cafbed1ca4f08f6c995ea85e6">
 </div>

    <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" placeholder="Search...">
    <input type="submit" id="search-submit" name="submit" value="">
</form>

Hi Andy,

Looks like this one is a bug, I’ve filed it as such here: https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/22411 You can subscribe to that to be notified of potential fixes and patches.

Ah at least that means I’m not going insane! haha. Thanks for looking into this James, thought that it should work so was completely thrown when it wasn’t

Andy

No worries, I thought it should work too!