HI, I am wondering if anyone know how to build a custom search tool. I am having a hard time figuring out how to find info on this. Here is what I want: The ability to click a bunch of options, we'll say I want to make a search for flowers. This search would start with an options box with all different flower colors, so I could click I like orange or red flowers, then I could click that I live in cold climate vs warm climate another option might be Rocky well drained soil vs clay type soils Eventually after all of the options have been chosen it will bring up a result of the perfect flower according to my choices. Does this make sense? If so How do I do it? Thanks in advance!
If you are using a CMS for your website, in most cases it will provide some own functions to help you accomplish this. Otherwise, if you are using your own script (assuming you are using PHP) , you will need to write some HTML code to get search interface, like search box, get respective categories from database with PHP and make for each of them a checkbox, a radio button or something. This is valable for any other option that you'll want for search box. After this, you will need to get informations from your database with SQL queries, filter them based on data sent from HTML form and display them as search results on a page. Or if you are using a CMS, you can simply search for a plugin that will do all this work for you .
HI, i am using wordpress. I have been unable to find a plugin that will do the job. I am sure one exists but I can't find it. It could be that I dont know the proper keywords to use to locate it. Thanks for the reply!
Take a look at Ajax-wp-query-search-filter or Advance-wp-query-search-filter . Or you can choose other from this search. To be able to search trough specific content, your content should probably need to be grouped by different content types and taxonomies.