How to have exposed filters not displayed on search results

Question

This is hard to explain so I'm attaching an image.

When someone clicks on a filter to search for something, I would like the resulting page to show results but not the filter. Maybe simply a link like "back to search".

Or possibly a small search box, like basic search but not every filter.

Answer 1

This is pretty simple to do with a little coding:

First create a "Display output" template inside your theme folder that will only target the relevant view (check options using "Theme: Information" bottom right under "Advanced" when you are on your view administration page). Copy the contents of "views-view.tpl.php" inside the file and clear the caches.

After that modify the original filter output:

<?php if ($exposed): ?>
  <div class="view-filters">
    <?php print $exposed; ?>
  </div>
<?php endif; ?>

to what you need:

<?php if ($exposed): ?>
  <div class="view-filters">
    <?php if (!isset($_GET['something'])): ?>
    <?php print $exposed; ?>
    <?php else: ?>
    <?php print l(t('Back to search'), $_GET['q']); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
  </div>
<?php endif; ?>

You will just have to replace "something" inside that $_GET to a value that is actually used in your filters (check the URL when you have a search performed - it will look like example.com?something=value1&somethingelse=value2). Since views adds all the filter keys to the URL when a search if performed you can pick any of them.