Question

I have created a search form that I want to forward on submit.

The way it should work is the user enters the term/keyword they want to search for, the form will then forward them to /search/$keyword

My research has let me to the conclusion that the form needs to be posted to the controller then do the forwarding from there. But I have tried numerous times and can’t get it to forward.

Here is the form:

<?php echo form_open('search'); ?>
            <input id="search_text" name="searchquery" type="text" value="enter your search here..." onfocus="if(this.value == 'enter your search here...') this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value == '') this.value='enter your search here...';" maxlength="120" >
       <?php echo form_close();?>

And the controller:

if($this->input->post('searchquery')){
 redirect('search', $this->input->post('searchquery'));
}

Answer 1

change this line:

redirect('search', $this->input->post('searchquery'));

to:

redirect('search/' . $this->input->post('searchquery'));

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In your redirect call, the second parameter is the “method” of redirection, so that’s why your redirect is not working. what you want is something like this:

redirect('search/my+search+term');

That’s why we do the string concatenation, instead of passing the search term to the second parameter.