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Need help using Low Search via GET request

James Lukensow 7 May 2013 18:08 question, complete

I'm trying to implement the Low Search via the Get request. Now, according to the docs, query="{segment_3}" is not needed when doing this. However, when I remove this from the search results page, the page always dispalys a list of items, that I'm not searching for. The search seems to work just fine when I use the encoded URI option, however, for this project, that is not an option. I need to be able to set the keywords via a get request.

Here's an example of my searchpage.html, which you can tell, has the form and the results, in the same page:

{exp:low_search:form collection="all" search_mode="all" result_page="v1/lowsearch"}

Keywords

Search

{/exp:low_search:form}

{exp:low_search:results query="{segment_3}" limit="10"}
{if count == 1}

{/if}

1. {title}

{if count == total_results}

Replies

1. Low 7 May 2013 18:28

   As mentioned in the docs, not all EE installes are capable to use the query string like this. We need to check a couple of things.
   
   First, in your config file, what is the $config['uri_protocol'] set to?
   
   Secondly, if you're using .htaccess to hide index.php from the URL, what does the mod_rewrite rules look like? If you're not hiding index.php form the URL, what does the full search results url look like?
   
   Thirdly, if you add the variable {low_search_query_string} to the Results tag, what does that return?

2. James Lukensow 7 May 2013 18:31

   Okay, so when adding {low_search_query_string} inside the results tag, it displays:
   
   ?collection=all&search_mode=all&keywords=beef
   
   My .htaccess file:
   
   RewriteEngine On
   
   # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
   RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
   
   And from the config:
   $config['uri_protocol'] = 'PATH_INFO';

3. Low 7 May 2013 18:39

   With those settings, I get search results just fine in my testing environment.
   
   Can I take a look myself? I would need SuperAdmin and FTP access to debug properly. You can send login credentials to hi at gotolow dot com.

4. James Lukensow 7 May 2013 18:59

   Sent a email...

5. James Lukensow 7 May 2013 19:26

   Thanks to Low on this one, turned out it was a caching issue:
   
   Changed
   
   $env_config['enable_sql_caching'] = 'y';
   
   to
   
   $env_config['enable_sql_caching'] = 'n';