Basically, I didn't need anything fancy. The simple example with some stripped out pieces would suffice, but I would like them to be able to simple search all entries by author, or any other segment for that matter. The problem I run into is every time I submit the search, I am told "You did not submit a search term." from the standard EE error screen. I have usually just built my searches but figured it would be better to use the search module as is rather than allowing PHP.
My template is as follows. Am I missing something simple here?
{exp:search:advanced_form result_page="search/results" no_result_page="search/no_results" channel="blog_post" status="not_closed" search_in="everywhere" where="all" show_expired="no" show_future_entries="no"}
<table cellpadding='4' cellspacing='6' border='0' width='100%' style="margin: 1em 0 0 0;">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>{lang:search_by_keyword}</legend>
<input type="text" class="input" maxlength="250" name="keywords" style="width:100%;" />
</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding='4' cellspacing='6' border='0' width='100%' style="margin: 1em 0 0 0;">
<tr>
<td width="50%">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>Search by Author</legend>
<div class="default">
<select name="where">
<option value="any" selected="selected">Any</option>
{snippet_active_authors}
</select>
</div>
</fieldset>
</td>
<td width="50%">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<div class="defaultBold">{lang:categories}</div>
<select name='cat_id[]' size='5' class='multiselect' multiple='multiple'>
<option value='all' selected="selected">{lang:any_category}</option>
{snippet_active_categories}
</select>
</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding='4' cellspacing='6' border='0' width='100%' style="margin: 1em 0 0 0;">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="50%">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>{lang:search_entries_from}</legend>
<select name="date" style="width:150px">
<option value="0" selected="selected">{lang:any_date}</option>
<option value="1" >{lang:today_and}</option>
<option value="7" >{lang:this_week_and}</option>
<option value="30" >{lang:one_month_ago_and}</option>
<option value="90" >{lang:three_months_ago_and}</option>
<option value="180" >{lang:six_months_ago_and}</option>
<option value="365" >{lang:one_year_ago_and}</option>
</select>
<div class="default"><br /></div>
<div class="default">
<input type='radio' name='date_order' value='newer' class='radio' checked="checked" /> {lang:newer}
<input type='radio' name='date_order' value='older' class='radio' /> {lang:older}
</div>
</fieldset>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="50%">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>{lang:sort_results_by}</legend>
<select name="orderby">
<option value="date" >{lang:date}</option>
<option value="title" >{lang:title}</option>
</select>
<div class="default"><br /></div>
<div class="default">
<input type='radio' name='sort_order' class="radio" value='desc' checked="checked" /> {lang:descending}
<input type='radio' name='sort_order' class="radio" value='asc' /> {lang:ascending}
</div>
</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding='4' cellspacing='6' border='0' width='100%' style="margin: 1em 0 0 0;">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<div class='searchSubmit' style="text-align: right;">
<input type='submit' value='Search' class='submit' />
</div>
</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
{/exp:search:advanced_form}
Thanks all.
