Newbie Here: Basic Front-End Component Help Topic is solved

[Bowner]

Hi All,

I am very new to the Joomla system and need a little help with a component I'm creating. What im trying to do is have a search form that the user fills out (zip code / suburb) and I need to pass these variables to a function to use in my query, I'm just a little stuck, could someone please help as to what i need to do. Please see below, thanks in advance

clublocator.php

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<?php
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

jimport('joomla.application.helper');
require_once( JApplicationHelper::getPath( 'html' ) );
JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.$option.DS.'tables');

switch($task) {
	case 'search':
	clubSearch($option);
	break;
	
	default:
	searchForm($option);
	break;
	
}

function searchForm($option) {

	HTML_clublocator::searchForm($option);
}

function clubSearch($option) {

	$row =& JTable::getInstance('clublocator', 'Table');
	$code = JRequest::getVar( 'postcode', '6000', 'POST' );

	HTML_clublocator::clubSearch($option, $code);
}
?>

clublocator.html.php

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<?php
class HTML_clublocator
{
	function searchForm($option) {
	?>

	<table>
	<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="index.php">
	Zip Code <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="postcode"><BR>
	Suburb <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="suburb"><BR>
	<INPUT TYPE="submit">

	<input type="hidden" name="option" value="<?php echo $option;?>" /> 
	<input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" /> 

	</table>

	<?php
	}

	function clubSearch($option) {


	}
}
?>