A few problems with the quicksearch and search

OK I have resolved part of the problem, for the reference of others who may experience the same problems I’ll explain: The reason it didn’t appear to bring in all properties on the search page was that it was automatically set to a radius of 3 miles. I changed the code in the php search file to 50 so all would be listed. I wasn’t using the sidebar as part of the search listings page, but when I did add it I could see the benefit of the automatic refreshing option. I don’t think it’s been explained clearly enough that these work better when put together.

However my first problem remains – the only way to get the quicksearch to work is to just press an option (rental, sales or commercial) and select search so I have used CSS to hide the location option for now. Would still like this resolved if at all possible.

Jess

I changed the area search from radio to a dropdown via vebra_shortcode.php lines 11 from

function vp_get_areas() {
    global $wpdb;
    global $vp_searchvars;    

    $table_name = $wpdb->prefix."vebraproperties";
    $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT area FROM $table_name";
    if ($result = $wpdb->get_results($sql)) {
        foreach ($result as $varea) {
            if ($vp_searchvars['area']==$varea->area)
                echo "<input type='radio' name='area' value='".$varea->area."' checked='checked'>".$varea->area."<br />";
            else
                echo "<input type='radio' name='area' value='".$varea->area."'>".$varea->area."<br />";
        }
    }
}

to

function vp_get_areas() {
    global $wpdb;
    global $vp_searchvars;
    echo "<select name='area'>";
    echo "<option value=''>Any</option>";
    $table_name = $wpdb->prefix."vebraproperties";
    $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT area FROM $table_name";
    if ($result = $wpdb->get_results($sql)) {
        foreach ($result as $varea) {
            if ($vp_searchvars['area']==$varea->area)
                echo "<option value='".$varea->area."' selected='selected' />".$varea->area."</option>";
            else
                echo "<option value='".$varea->area."' />".$varea->area."</option>";
        }
    }
    echo "</select>";
}

This stopped it auto refreshing the search when selecting a property area.

great thanks