Search Form for Pods Tutorial

I’m stuck! I’m a beginner at using PHP. It’s been weeks and I can’t, for the life of me, get a search form to work with my pods! I’ve been reading through the forums and codex for weeks but I’m so confused.

I have a pod named Books. This pod have custom fields of Author, Year, Genre. I want to create a search form that can search through the custom fields that I want via a tick box, and have the results displayed using a pods template I made. I also want to be able to sort the results with any of my custom fields.

Are there any noob friendly tutorials that can guide me through making this?
I would extremely appreciate any help or advice that could point me in the right direction.
I’M DESPERATE!!!
– Angelica

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