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Custom search form - how do I get the posted values?

I've created a Custom Post Type called Properties. I want to search theses posts but found no way of including them in the results by the core search function so I decided to create a custom search form for my site.

This is how the form looks like:


<form class="search" method="GET" action="search-results">

<input type="hidden" name="rooms_from_value" class="rooms_from_value" value="" /

<input type="hidden" name="rooms_to_value" class="rooms_to_value" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="space_from_value" class="space_from_value" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="space_to_value" class="space_to_value" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="price_from_value" class="price_from_value" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="price_to_value" class="price_to_value" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="country" class="display country" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="type" class="display type" value="" />

<button type="submit">Search</button>

</form>


Why all the hidden fields? I've created non-form input elements to enhance the look and feel of the form. These elements then provide the hidden fields with the appropriate values when selected.

As for the action I want to take the user to a page called "search-results" and display the results there.
I'm pretty sure I know how to sort the results, I just can't fetch the values on the search-results site, I guess it's due to a conflict with the url rewrites. Any ideas?

Using WordPress 3.0 and the following plug-ins: WPML, Simple Fields

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Staffan Estberg | 08/01/10 at 6:22am Edit

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    Last edited:
    08/05/10
    9:37am
    Lew Ayotte says:

    I may not be understanding your question...

    When you submit the form you can use the $_GET['variable'] (where variable is the name of the input field) to get the values you want.

    So for rooms_from_value, you'd use $_GET['rooms_from_value'];

    Is that what you're asking?

    Lew

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