search results

[eluser]E303[/eluser]
I am creating a basic search application.

What i am having troubles with though is once someone clicks on a results and the information is displayed, I want to have a "back to results" link. How do I get display the page with the users results?

[eluser]ejangi[/eluser]
You could have the search terms be passed via POST and as a URL segment. For instance:

Code:

http://mydomain.com/search/my+search+terms

And in your controller do something to the effect of:

Code:

$search_terms = '';
if (!($search_terms = $this->url->segment(2))) {
    $search_terms = $this->input->post('keywords');
}
// ... do actual search code here

That way you can simply grab the search terms again and create the "Back to results link".

[eluser]mdavis1982[/eluser]
You could also keep previous page URLs in the session, and write out an anchor tag to point you back to the previous page.

Hope that helps!

Cheers...

Matt