GT on my search module

Worker Joined: Dec 23, 2005 Posts: 226 Location: UK

I'm trying to GT a database search module i've made but having problems with the GT'd serch results when it has multipule search words.

modules.php\?name=MySearch&search=([a-zA-Z]*)&page=([0-9]*)
football_news_\\1_page-\\2.html

The first parameter is the search words and works fine with one word but if I have more than one search word I get

football_news.html?search=WORD1%20WORD2&page=2

the original url looks like search=WORD1 WORD2 so I think it's the space but can't figure it out.

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:50 pm

If I put a space after the Z

modules.php\?name=MySearch&search=([a-zA-Z0-9 ]*)&page=([0-9]*)

I get

football_news_WORD1%20WORD2_page-2.html

Is there a way to replace the %20 with a space?

registered · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:19 pm

%20 is a space character. Are you saying its not working as a space?

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:34 am

evaders99 wrote:

%20 is a space character. Are you saying its not working as a space?

Yes, maybe I'm not writing the htaccess corectly

RewriteRule ^football_news_([a-zA-Z0-9]*)_page-([0-9]*).html modules.php?name=MySearch&search=$1&page=$2 [L]

I saw in a post by Audioslaved that you should use % , something like ([a-zA-Z0-9%]*) to sort the space but that's not making any difference.

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:27 pm

fixed it with $search = str_replace(" ", "-", $search);

registered · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:20 am

I would try using the exact same regex that you used in the GT file. Did the following really not work?:

RewriteRule ^football_news_([a-zA-Z0-9 ]*)_page-([0-9]*).html modules.php?name=MySearch&search=$1&page=$2 [L]

Notice the space after the 9.

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:39 am

No it would not work, but the fix works well, had to do the oposite fix for the $keywords so that pagelinks would work.

It's a cool little module that searches the multiheadlines database allowing me to make perminent gt'd links with dynamic titles using search terms.

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:46 am

that is strange. I could have sworn that I've seen this working (not with your specific module, but the concept). If I get time, I'll check this on one of my sites.