Custom Search page

[Cyclist]

Ist it possible to creat an custom search page where all exhibitions are searched by default? I would prefer to offer a search page outside of each exhibition as it is set up know. Is this possible and if so how can I create it?

[Cyclist]

Is this not possible? Does anybody have any ideas how to do it?

[Pekka]

You could do a search form and use forced switch $exhibition=all.

But you could also explain users that if you do a search in EE the search "holds" when you change exhibitions, or you could just select "all galleries combined".

[Cyclist]

I want to heave a search form where you can search all exibitions because I am going to have too many exhibitions (more than 300) and for that the drop-down-menu to choose the right exhibition is very uncomfortable. So I would like to have a simple search within a exibition and an advanced search on an extra page which should be an extra menu point as well.

The problem is that I only know how to create a simple form in html but I don't know how to assign those fields to the EE and how to get a search working with EE as backend.

Is there somewhere a code or example that I can look at?

[msbc]

Is this what you are looking for:

http://YOURSITE/gallery/list.php?exhibition=all&pass=public&select_output= 7_per_row&perpage=100&sort_row=ee_photo.ee_photo_e xif_datetime&order=ASC

[Cyclist]

Not really. It's just a workaround that would be acceptable but it's not really what I want.

I want an extra page (not list.php) which only contains the search form without showing any pics when calling it. The pics should be shown only after submitting a search. And of course the search should be over all exhibitions.

It's something like an extra search.php but I have no idea how do create such. Other galleries have extra search pages but they lack in other parts. For me it would be perfect if EE would offer this.