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[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

I'll move this to coding discussion, as it is probably more suited there Could get better responses there too.

[Roph]

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<form action="http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="search">Search...</input>
</form>

The critical part is the method="GET" part. There are 2 main methods of submitting, POST and GET. POST submits "silently" (for example, you don't want to submit a post and then have the entire post text on the end of the URL), GET adds it to the URL.

This form:

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<form action="http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="search">Search...</input>
<input type="text" name="secondvar">pizza</input>
<input type="text" name="thirdvar">pasta</input>
</form>

Would result in the end URL being http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=Search...&secondvar=pizza&thirdvar=pasta.

I still recommend leaving it as POST though. As was said, the breadcrumb links directly. The whole point of those breadcrumbs is a sort of "you are here" device.

[Oya]

the breadcrumb actually encodes the entire search string since on forums with lots of boards you can run afoul of a limitation in internet explorer

[smartdeviceresource]

I'll move this to coding discussion, as it is probably more suited there Could get better responses there too.

Awesome, Thanks.

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<form action="http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="search">Search...</input>
</form>

The critical part is the method="GET" part. There are 2 main methods of submitting, POST and GET. POST submits "silently" (for example, you don't want to submit a post and then have the entire post text on the end of the URL), GET adds it to the URL.

This form:

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<form action="http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="search">Search...</input>
<input type="text" name="secondvar">pizza</input>
<input type="text" name="thirdvar">pasta</input>
</form>

Would result in the end URL being http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=Search...&secondvar=pizza&thirdvar=pasta.

I still recommend leaving it as POST though. As was said, the breadcrumb links directly. The whole point of those breadcrumbs is a sort of "you are here" device.

So assuming I did this I would just have to replace method="Post" with method="GET" in index.template.php and search.php? and nothing else

the breadcrumb actually encodes the entire search string since on forums with lots of boards you can run afoul of a limitation in internet explorer

The thing is the bread crumb doesn't show in the address bar which is why it is impossible to copy/paste from the address bar to a post to tell a user

you should search before posting. this has been answered a number of times http://yourforum//index.php?action=search2;search=question

without having to explain to every user that they must type ;search=question