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Topic: simple search funtion

Posted By: odang
Subject: simple search funtion
Date Posted: 11 August 2006 at 11:14pm

I would like to have a single search field that searches the entire forum integrated at the top of every page of my site including the pages that are not part of the forum.

I currently have it posting to:

search_results_posts.asp?SearchID=[I generate this in the same format as the forum does]&KW=[this is the search term]

But I still get:

Either the search has expired or you do not have permission to run this search. http://www.sierrasnowboard.com/forum/search_form.asp?KW=search - Create New Search

What do I need to do to get that to work?

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 August 2006 at 11:23pm

The search form in the forum is submitted to a page called 'search_process.asp' which does all the hard work of pressing the search, once the search is complete and stored in the web servers memory only then are you passed to the search_results_posts.asp page.

Have a look at the search_form.asp page as you will need to create many of the fields within the form as hidden fields for the search process to work.

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Posted By: odang
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 12:41am

cool, thanks

Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 1:32am

<div class="entry">
<script language="JavaScript">
//Function to check form is filled in correctly before submitting
function CheckForm () {

var formArea = document.getElementById('frmSearch');

//Check for a somthing to search for
if ((formArea.KW.value=="") && (formArea.USR.value=="")){

  msg = "<% = strTxtErrorDisplayLine %>\n\n";
  msg += "<% = strTxtErrorDisplayLine1 %>\n";
  msg += "<% = strTxtErrorDisplayLine2 %>\n";
  msg += "<% = strTxtErrorDisplayLine %>\n\n";
  msg += "<% = strTxtErrorDisplayLine3 %>\n";

  alert(msg + "\n\t<% = strTxtSearchFormError %>\n\n");
  formArea.KW.focus();
  return false;
}

//Disable submit button
document.getElementById('Submit').disabled=true;

//Show progress bar
var progressWin = document.getElementById('progressBar');
var progressArea = document.getElementById('progressFormArea');
progressWin.style.left = progressArea.offsetLeft + (progressArea.offsetWidth-210)/2 + 'px';
progressWin.style.top = progressArea.offsetTop + (progressArea.offsetHeight-140)/2 + 'px';
progressWin.style.display='inline'
return true;
}
</script>
<iframe width="200" height="110" id="progressBar" src="/worklife/includes/progress_bar.asp" style="display:none; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
<div id="progressFormArea">
<form method="post" name="frmSearch" id="frmSearch" action="/worklife/search_process.asp<% = strQsSID1 %>" onSubmit="return CheckForm();" onReset="return confirm('<% = strResetFormConfirm %>');">

This is something I created that appears to work for me. Smile

You may want to change some of the settings if you don't like the default settings I made.

...

Borg,

It would be nice if there was an option to search both the title and the message,

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