Search Filtering

Hi,

I'm just wondering whether I am missing a trick here, or have got things completely wrong but....

My aim is to have a search facility on the site. This is all working well, based of the supplied pages and modified templates, i.e. search.php, main-search-form.html and main-search-result.html.

The search bar is in the header of the site (within a layout file) and returns results currently just to the search.php page within the route and this works fine.

I have exposed the 'result-source' so the user can see where results are being pulled from, but what I would like to do is add a 'filter' on the search.php page, which would then return results based on this secondary request.

So, workflow would be. User submits initial search term (search=search-term), which is then displayed on the search.php page using:

<?php
$query = perch_get('search');
perch_content_search($query, array(
'template'=>'main-search-result.html'
 ));
?>

However, at the top of the search.php page, I would like to have a series of links, where I could then filter the delvierd results by the result-source, or rather app.

Just wondering if I can do this and how I could, as I cannot quite think through how I would still keep the 'search-term' and submit it once more into another perch query such as:

<?php
$query = perch_get('search');
perch_content_search($query, array(
'apps' => array('PerchBlog'),
'template'=>'main-search-result.html'
));
?>

I've tried a few things, but not even sure if this is possible.

Any ideas ?

Maybe I have to pass it to another page ? Bit lost.

Any help, greatly appreciated.

Ulitmately, I suppose trying to get to a button or link that would filter the current displayed results.

If I passed the query value into a new page then I could use a new perch call as above to 'filter' on apps, but wondering if I can keep it on the same page, maybe with an if/else statement to pick-up if a filter has been clicked ?????

Thanks.