clear the search field if no results found

flu

Hi,
when using search and nothing is found, wouldn't it be nice to clear the search field ?

Anyway, is there any trick to clear the search field in any case ?

Cheers !

sbillard

There should be a reset button to clear the field. Or do you mean programatic trick?

flu

That's it, I mean programatic trick.
Anyway - IMHO - I thought that my first request (if no result found) would get sense.

Cheers !

sbillard

`$_zp_current_search->setSearchParams('words=');`

This has to be done in the theme itself as the theme is the only entity that knows if the search was empty. We can add that to the standard themes.

flu

Thank you Stephen, I'll try it.

flu

Stephen,
could you please tell me where to write it in search.php ?
I'm a bit lost.

Cheers.

sbillard

First, turns out that is not sufficient. (The search engine caches the search!)

So what you need to do is place the following code in search.php somewhere before the call on `printSearchForm()`

`
$_zp_current_search->processed_search = '';
$_zp_current_search->words = '';
`
Of course, do this only if there have your page determines there are no results.

flu

That works.
A big thank you, Stephen !

Cheers !

sbillard

This will become a feature next release for distributed themes. There will be an object method to clear the search parameters.