[wp-hackers] Removing ?= from searches

[Alex King]

Why not do a POST from the search form then redirect to the URL as you  
want it?

I think it would be something like this...

header("Location:  
".get_settings('siteurl')."/ 
search/".urlencode(stripslashes($_POST["s"))));
die();

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Nov 27, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Rob Mientjes wrote:

> Your email address is not really giving us hope, Robert ;)
>
> It'd require Javascript. Shame. Not everybody has JS enabled.
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:05:53 -0500, Robert Deaton  
> <false.hopes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, well, how about a little javascript magic to pull the input from
>> the textbox and use a text link instead of a form submit button, and
>> have the link translate via .htaccess to a GET link, and have the
>> search functions read it from get.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:02:12 +0100, Rob Mientjes  
>> <robmientjes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Indeed. Submitting a form gives you a nasty URI. Not cool. But what
>>> exactly are the differences between GET and POST? That could maybe
>>> shed a different light on this question.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:34:23 +0100, Mathias Bynens  
>>> <mathibus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Robert, the permalinks aren't the problem, the form itself is.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:18:25 -0500, Robert Deaton  
>>>> <false.hopes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> You could do some .htaccess magic with mod_rewrite, but I have no  
>>>>> idea
>>>>> how that goes, but I'm sure you could integrate it in with the
>>>>> permalinks somehow (so it doesn't get removed every time your
>>>>> permalinks are updated)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:00:22 +0100, Mathias Bynens  
>>>>> <mathibus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm afraid the only way to do something like this is through
>>>>>> JavaScript... Or no, we could make the form action
>>>>>> search.php?q=keyword for example, and then let it redirect to
>>>>>> /search/keyword/.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mathias Bynens aka MaThIbUs
>>>>>> http://mathibus.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:39:55 +0100, Michael Heilemann
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <michael at binarybonsai.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In an effort to do searches that look like this:
>>>>>>> http://binarybonsai.com/search/keyword, we're trying to remove  
>>>>>>> the ?=
>>>>>>> from the search form. If someone could point us in the right  
>>>>>>> direction,
>>>>>>> that'd be great.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Join the fray:  
>>>>>>> http://noscope.com/journal/2004/07/separate_search_page
>>>>>>>