Will pay for mods...

[abkeller]

OK... I've gone through the default search page and tried modifying it (making it more specific) by creating/defining extra fields. It's still not meeting our criteria. I need to modify the default search functions to be the following (all on the same interface);

1) Eliminate top-level category search field (when I did that the extra fields would not display because the logic depends on the selection of top level category first - don't want this here, will use top-level categories on Browse page)

2) Need to display the admin-created extra field (Manufacturer) ON PAGE LOAD, not as it is now (when the corresponding top-level category is selected first)

3) Search by phone number

4) Search by dateadded via a drop-down menu;

Search listings added since:
Anytime
Since Yesterday
Last 3 Days
Last Week
Last Month


Any takers? Please contact me with suggestions or quote and samples of previous work.

Thanks.

[abkeller]

I've figured out how to do this myself. I've fixed the advanced search page by completely redoing the search.tpl.php file.

1) To completely customize all search fields on this page I removed this code from the page;

"<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/cpaint/cpaint2.inc.compressed.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
{literal}
var cp = new cpaint();
cp.set_transfer_mode('get');
cp.set_response_type('text');
cp.set_persistent_connection(false);
cp.set_async(true);
cp.set_proxy_url('');
cp.set_debug(false);

function displaySec(type){
var QSTRING = type.options[type.selectedIndex].value;
cp.call('{/literal}{$smarty.const.URL}{literal}/ajax.php', 'ajax_extra_search_fields', response, QSTRING);
return false;
}

function response(result) {
document.getElementById('response').innerHTML = result;
document.getElementById('optResponse').innerHTML = '';
}

function displayNewSec(opt){
var QSTRING = opt.options[opt.selectedIndex].value;
cp.call('{/literal}{$smarty.const.URL}{literal}/ajax.php', 'extra_search_fields2', optResponse, QSTRING);
return false;
}


function optResponse(result) {
document.getElementById('optResponse').innerHTML ="";
document.getElementById('optResponse').innerHTML += result;
}

/*
function optResponse(result) {
var newDiv = document.getElementById('optResponse').appendChild (document.createElement('div'));
newDiv.innerHTML = result;
}
*/

{/literal}
//-->
</script>"

2) Then I hardcoded search fields for all the search parameters I wanted to include;

Search by phone; <input type="text" name="phone">
Search by listing ID; <input name="adid" type="text" id="adid" size="6">
Search by extra field (Manufacturer - Field ID 12); "><select name="opt12" size="10" multiple onChange="displayNewSec(this);"> (list is automatically populated from the dB)


3) For the "search by date" parameter, these links are already available in the admin control panel under "browselistings.php". I simply created a new pull-down menu in the "search.tpl.php" and coded each this way;

<select name="select">
<option selected>Antyime</option>
<option value="fromdate={$today}&enddate={$today}">Tod ay</option>
<option value="fromdate={$day}&enddate={$today}">Last 24 hours</option>
<option value="fromdate={$week}&enddate={$today}">Last Week</option>
<option value="fromdate={$month}&enddate={$today}">Las t Month</option>
</select>

Works great!