[wp-hackers] Rewriting search URL

Sebastian Herp newsletter at scytheman.net
Fri Apr 22 00:46:49 GMT 2005


Add
onClick="document.searchform.method='post'; 
document.searchform.action='/search/' + document.searchform.s.value;"

to your submit-button ... replace "searchform" with whatever name your 
form has ...

Greetings,
Sebbi

Peak Discharge wrote:

> That changes my url into the form of 
> http://www.unicorns.com/?s=string, which is a progress. The aim, 
> however is to change all search urls to 
> http://www.unicorns.com/search/string
>
> On 4/22/05, *denis at semiologic.com <mailto:denis at semiologic.com>* 
> <denis at semiologic.com <mailto:denis at semiologic.com>> wrote:
>
>     Quoting Peak Discharge <chmoka at gmail.com <mailto:chmoka at gmail.com>>:
>
>     > One of the things I love wp for is it's permalinks systems that
>     utilizes
>     > mod_rewrite. I have tried tens of blog scripts in the past but
>     wp's is the
>     > best one. One thing I have noticed, however, it does not rewrite
>     the search
>     > URL. So instead of something neat such as '
>     > http://www.unicorns.com/search/unicorn'
>     <http://www.unicorns.com/search/unicorn%27>, I see
>     > 'http://www.unicorns.com/index.php?s=unicorn&searchbutton=Go%21
>     <http://www.unicorns.com/index.php?s=unicorn&searchbutton=Go%21>
>
>     simply change the form's action's to "/" to solve this
>



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