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    <p>Ok, first up, <em>I second googletorps suggestion to look at a <a href="http://drupal.org/project/views" rel="nofollow noreferrer">views</a> based solution first</em>, as it can save you quite some custom coding. However, I often find myself in a position where a views based solution turns out to offer only 80% of what I need and adding the missing 20% with views can be more work than a custom solution right from the start - check out views with exposed filters and see if it fits.</p> <p>If it doesn't, here are some hints that should get you started for a custom solution:</p> <ul> <li>As for the search form, a block is the right way to go. Take a look into <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_block/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>hook_block()</code></a> for how to create one (you'll need to implement at least operations 'list' and 'view' for this)</li> <li>Placement would happen via build/block as you said</li> <li>On operation 'view', you would build your form. Take a look into the <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api.html/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">forms API Quickstart</a> and <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">reference</a> for form handling in Drupal (do not build your own forms manually - the Drupal forms API needs only a bit of getting used to and will save you tons of time in the future)</li> <li>For the result pages, you'd register your own page callback function for the paths you want, see <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_menu/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>hook_menu()</code></a> for this. <ul> <li><strong>Warning:</strong> Your proposed path 'search/...' would conflict with Drupals build in search path, so you might consider choosing a slight variation (e.g. 'search/people/...' or 'peoplesearch/' or the like)</li> </ul></li> <li>For link creation in Drupal, use the <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/l/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">l()</a> function</li> <li>For pagination you <em>might</em> be able to use <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_pager/6" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>theme_pager</code></a>, but this depends on how straight your actual search query turns out, as it expects an array of query string parameters to build the query</li> </ul>
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    1. COexcellent help ;) thanks
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