Again, this is Views 2 that I'm using, but having set up a Content Type with additional CCK fields (Just a field in D7, if I recall). In D6 it's Content:name_of_field, in D7, I think it's Field:name_of_field.
Joel
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Al Sessions Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:58 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Drupal 7: Search Woes
Thanks, Joel.
Exposed Filters was initially the way I wanted to go.
However, I can't seem to get Views to filter by fields.
I have a date_of_birth field (plain text) that seems unfilterable.
If I filter on node:title, there is no problem. I can expose the filter and get the results I want.
However, it doesn't seem to work with fields (I've tried several).
The code you provided seems simple enough, but I'm concerned about creating custom forms and embedding views. I don't know who is taking over this site and would far rather to everything from the GUI than programatically.
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Joel Willers joel.willers@sigler.com wrote:
I'd use Exposed Filters, personally. If that doesn't work, you could always create a custom form and when you hit 'Search' it THEN runs the View (using the Views API) with those filters. This method, of course, takes a bit of programming, but it isn't too hard, actually.
Here's an example from Views2 (You'll have to find the correct Views3 functions, if they've changed) that searched for items within 15 miles of the zipcode entered in the form:
(set $zipcode to the $_POST information)
$view = views_get_view('name_of_view_example'); $view->exposed_input['distance'] = array('postal_code' => $zipcode, 'search_distance' => '15', 'search_units' => 'mile');
$displayview = $view->preview(); print $displayview;
Hope that helps some.
Joel