Search In Navigation Bar

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

How guys, how do i make a search field in the navigation bar, that searches through two to three columns of different tables? Kind of like the one yii have.

I would prefer not to use any extensions unless it is the last option.

2

What do you mean with navigation bar?

3

The navigation menu at the top of the page next to the logo

– EDIT –

I’ve always just thought of it as “navigation bar” since that’s what they call it at w3schools.com

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_navbar.asp

4

Ok. You can launch, for example, actionNavigationBarSearch,

passing parameters as this: /controller/navigationBarSearch?ArrFields[attr1]=1&ArrFields[attr2]=ok

where you can write:




function actionNavigationBarSearch()

{

      $obj = new ClassTest('search');

      $obj->unsetAttributes();

   

      if (isset($_GET['ArrFields']))

      {

           $obj->attributes = $_GET['ArrFields'];

      }


      $this->render('navigation_bar_search', array('model' => $obj);

}

Then in your navigation_bar_search.php view you have:




<?php $this->widget('GridViewServizi', array(

    'id'=>'navbarsearch-grid',

    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),

    'filter'=>$model,

    'columns'=>array(

       array(

         .....

         ....

search() is template method in your model class.

5

Thanks :)

6

Is there a way not to do this with using the gridview? I mean, i want the search bar integrated in my navigation-menu at all pages of the site, and i can’t see why one should use gridview in such a situation?

7

Sure! You do not necessarily have to use a grid.

You can display results as you want (list, grid, ec…)

8

How can i display it as just a label in the navigation menu, and redirect to a page with the search results in a list view?

9

If i put something like this in my layouts/main.php file, how should the /product/admin.php view file and the productController look like?


<?php echo CHtml::form(Yii::app()->createUrl('product/admin'), 'get') ?>

            <?php echo CHtml::textField('search') ?>

            <?php echo CHtml::submitButton('search'); ?>

    <?php echo CHtml::endForm() ?>

Or should the form in the main.php file look different somehow?