Search In Yii Using Different Categories

[naveed1 (ndk)]

I am using esearch extension in my site and it gives the good result.

I have to models ITEMS and Itemcategories model. I want to use the search feature via item category. i.e. search the items related to the selected category only. I have already generate the categories dropdown list

If anyone have any idea then plz share.

Thanks in advance.

[alirz23 (Ali Raza)]

This should be very straight forward since you already have a relationship/association in between item and category

in you criteria select all the items where category_id is equal to category_id from search box

$criteria = new CDbCriteria;

$criteria->compare('category_id', $_GET['category']); // use $_POST['category'] if you using post method to search

[alirz23 (Ali Raza)]

if you don’t understand paste your code here I will sort it out for you

JANAB

[naveed1 (ndk)]

Here is the code.

<div class="row search-bar">

        <div class="col-md-4">


            <select class="form-control">


                <option>Select a Category</option>


                <?php


                $criteria = new CDbCriteria();


                $data = Categories::model()->findAll();


                foreach ($data as $model) {


                    ?>


                    <option><?php echo $model->name; ?></option>  


                <?php } ?>


            </select>


        </div>


        <div class="col-md-8">


            <?php SearchAction::renderInputBox(); ?>


        </div>


    </div>

[alirz23 (Ali Raza)]

// search form

<div class="row search-bar">

	<?php echo CHtml::beginForm(array('site/search', 'get')); ?>


		<div class="col-md-4">

		<?php echo CHtml::dropDownList('post', '', CHtml::listData(Category::model()->findAll(), 'id', 'name'), array(

				'class'=>'form-control', 

				'prompt'=>'Select a Category'

		));?>

		</div>


		<div class="col-md-8">

			<?php echo CHtml::textField('q', ''); ?>

		</div>

		<?php echo CHtml::button('Search'); ?>

		

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

</div>


// in your controller add a action 


public function actionSearch($q, $category)

	{	

		$criteria=new CDbCriteria;


		$criteria->compare('name', $q, true);

		$criteria->compare('category_id',$category);

		$result = Item::model()->findAll($criteria);


		$this->render('search', array('result'=>$result));

		

	}




// in your search result page


foreach($result as $row) {

  echo $row->name;

}