What are the methods for search?

[cobber]

Been trying to get search working and want to know what methods exist to output the results of the search.

In

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$page 

we have

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$page->title()

etc.

I have the search page appearing but am unsure how to output the results. I have looked at the plugin code and can't see anything.

For example on the search landing page I would like to output the results of the search. I assume the results will be an object which I can iterate through.

Was hoping for some input

[cobber]

Anyone have an idea?

[multicolordev]

you want search from input and give results title with link yeah?

[cobber]

For anyone interested in the future. . .

I made a theme for myself and wanted to add the search but for some reason it failed to work. The results either wouldn't appear or would cause an error and break the page.

In my own index.php code, I made a conditional to use particular templates. (this means the user can select a template of choice when creating a new page).

Then in the index, we run the conditional to check if a template is being used. (Notice I made a specific check for search).

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    if($WHERE_AM_I == "search"){
        include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'search.php');
    }
    else if ($page->custom('template')) {   
 
            // If a custom template is specified 
            if ($WHERE_AM_I=='page') {
                include(THEME_DIR_PHP.$page->custom('template').'.php');
            } else {
                include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'home.php');
            }   
         
    } else {    
           // If not
            if ($WHERE_AM_I=='page') {
                include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'page.php');
            } else {
                include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'home.php');
            }    
     
    } 

The solution was so simple, I could kick myself. It was staring me in the face all this time , in plain sight with in the documentation. Within the 'search' template I made, I added the following code to obtain the search results.

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<?php
                global $content;

                foreach ($content as $page) {
                    echo "<h2><a href='".$page->permalink()."'>".$page->title()."</a></h2>";
                    echo "<p>".$page->description()."</p>";
                }
 ?>
 

Anyway, hope this helps someone in the future.