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Too bad you are hiding the download link. That’s not the way to post a download…

Isn’t that about the same as this Advanced Search?

@moshu: Huh? Hiding what?

The page I link to is the one that shows how it works. I have a bolded link to the page that describes how to download and use it. Are you suggesting I should just point to the download page first because I assumed people would rather just see what it does.

@gangleri: No way! Theirs is MUCH better ??

Though seriously, the reason I put this together is that I came up with a way to select posts with multiple categories and people kept asking me to expand it.

When I was searching for a way to do it, I wasn’t able to find one very easily.

According to the comments for that plugin, it can’t search based on categories or tags without search terms as well so mine does do some things that it doesn’t.

Right, you convinced me, I’ll try it out in my test site.

I have a bolded link to the page that describes how to download

It doesn’t really describe how to download. You have a snapshot and the visitor has to click on that image to get the zip file. It never says anywhere “Download”. Unless you hover over the image by accident, there is no download link.

Rrrright…… even with Moshu’s description it took me about 5 minutes to find that download link. It’s not even the most logical image to click to download. Just make a download link somewhere.
And another puzzle: how do I start the search?
Do you like puzzles?

i looked right after moshu first posted and only found the download accidentally, for what it’s worth ??

Whoops! Thanks guys. I completely forgot to make it obvious. I’ve fixed it now.

“Do you like puzzles? “

@gangleri: Not on purpose ??

“Note that every time you add or subtract a name or change an “Any” or “All” option, the Jsearch page will automatically fetch new results below the selection box”

Is it not working as described? The new results should show under the box automatically.

I can type and add terms and categories whatever I want, but no search results. I was just playing around with your own search box to see how it works, but nothing happens. IE6 (work).

@gangleri. Bugger. I’ll check it again in IE and see what happens.

edit: Curses! I never checked it in IE and it’s not working at all… I’ll have to debug that later tonight (dang it).

Well that sucks. IE is being a pain. On one page, it’s not showing any results at all and on the other it’s only responding to the first AJAX query and none after. Where’s a good place to ask for help on this kind of problem?

By the way, I added a small hack to the search page so it will work with an ugly iframe if you click the “IE HACK button” for now

I like the plugin, but there seems to be too many permutations and I actually just want a simple sidebar widget that can allow my readers to select:
e.g. country-> australia, canada, new zealand etc
And
e.g. cuisine -> italian, french, mediterranean

Can I do that for a widget with your plugin with simplicity?
Also, i would like to change the outlook of the brown box…is it with CSS?

I fixed the searches so they just use a page refresh. The AJAX was getting too complicated.

@girl.mg – The simple way to do that is to have two select boxes with the categories in it where the values are the ids. Like so:

<form>
<select name=id1>
<option value=catId>CatName</option>
<option value=catId>CatName</option>
</select>

<select name=id2>
<option value=catId>CatName</option>
<option value=catId>CatName</option>
</select>
<input type=submit value="Go!"/>
</form>

Where each instance of CatName is a category name and catID is the ID for that category.

Next, handle them in your PHP as described here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

Which should look like this:

$id1 = $_REQUEST["nameoffirstselectbox"];
$id2 = $_REQUEST["nameofsecondselectbox"]
query_posts(array('category__and' => array($id1,$id2)));

Then the normal loop will print the results.