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1. somefool
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   right, I see Wp 1.5 seems to support clean urls for search out of the box. Mine atleast least me do http://www.somefoolwitha.com/search/apple rather than http://www.somefoolwitha.com/?s=apple for example.

   Now to the nub of my question, HOW do I get the search box in WP to return the clean url instead of the ?s= one?

   Ive searched through the WP code for ?s= but I cant find anything in the code, so whats going on?

   Looks like others wanted an answer in November! http://www.noscope.com/journal/2004/07/separate_search_page/

2. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I just did a search on your site and it brings up the clean urls?

3. somefool
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   are you sure, a search url is still ....com/?s=searchterm

4. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oooh, I thought you meant the urls on the results list. Yeah the url of the search page is the s=...

5. somefool
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i thought that was clear ;-)

6. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   yeah, now that i read it again... :) Sorry! No more helping until the coffee kicks in....

7. Davin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   "somefool": Any hints on your process for linking to /search/keyword with WP1.5? Did you need to create a page with "search" as the slug?

8. m4c3w4n
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://www.somefoolwitha.com/search/drool

   seems to work fine

9. Davin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Disregard my question above. I think what "somefool" is referring to is that you can type an url such as "blah.com/search/keyword" manually and it's a clean working url but if you use the search form it still spits out an "index.php?s=keyword".

   The only thing I can think of is pointing the search form to an interim PHP page which captures the keyword(s) and redirects to an appropriately formed clean url.

10. Kafkaesqui
    Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    This came up in a Hackers list thread a few months back:

    http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-April/000719.html

11. Davin
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Okay I just tried this...

    I made a new PHP file that just had this in it:
    
<?php header("Location: http://www.SITE.com/search/".$s); ?>


    Then I just set the search form action to point to the new PHP file. I'm not a programmer by any means but that seems to work.

12. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Ok, cheers Davin Ill give that a try.

    I did think my question was clear, but obviously I was wrong ;-)

13. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hmm, Ok, what am I doing wrong?

    Bearing in mind that Ive got livesearch on my site, heres what Ive done. I removed the name="s" attribute which seems to make it go to ?s=

    Now it just bounces on to site.com/search/ it doesnt seem to bring the search terms with it

    --
    <form style="float:left; padding:0px;" onsubmit="return liveSearchSubmit()" id="searchform" name="searchform" method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/search.php" autocomplete="off">
    <input style="width:170px;" type="search" results="5" autosave="ssave" id="livesearch" value="Search" size="20" onkeypress="liveSearchStart()" onblur="setTimeout('closeResults()',2000); if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}" onfocus="if (this.value == 'search blog archives') {this.value = '';}" class="inputboxes" />
    <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" style="display: none;" value="Search" />
    <div id="LSResult" style="display: none;"><div id="LSShadow"></div></div>
    </form>
    --

14. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    oops, scrattch that, it needs the name="s" and works fine :-)

    cheers guys ;-D

15. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    If someone knows where best to place it, Ill stick this on the codex - when it works again

16. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    So, anyone any ideas where best to add this to the codex?

17. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    OK, ive added this, hopefully its fine

    http://codex.wordpress.org/search

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Search/Cruft-free_URIs

18. MichaelH
    Moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    somefool--thanks for the contribution to Codex. Your explanation has been moved to:
    How to get cruft free URIs for search results? at Codex FAQ Advanced Topics

19. somefool
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Cool! Cheers, i wasnt sure what I was doing really, or where exactly to put it, but I thought best to stick it up there asd it can always be moved around by someone more knowledgeable than me.

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