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Can VBScript and Javascript be used on sa

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Topic: Can VBScript and Javascript be used on sa

Posted By: Julianne
Subject: Can VBScript and Javascript be used on sa
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 1:55pm

My ASP pages have scripts in them that are written in vbscript. I've finally found an ASP-based site search that I can get working and which does exactly what I want it to, but it's apparently written in Javascript!

I've tried everything I can think of but just can't work out how I can incorporate the search box into an existing page. It works fine on its own page, but not if I try to put the form/include files etc into my homepage, for example.

The script is at http://www.blursoftware.com/ASPSimpleSearch/ - http://www.blursoftware.com/ASPSimpleSearch/ .

I'd be really grateful if someone could tell me how I can get the script to work within my existing pages, or if there's a workaround that I can use.

Just in case you're wondering, I did try the site search script from Web Wiz on my site but for some reason the results it showed didn't tally with the number of results it said it found! I did post about this problem but no-one answered.

Many thanks.

Replies:

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 07 May 2003 at 10:36am

Have you tried just changing the language to VBscript, some scripts will work in both.

Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 07 May 2003 at 11:22am

Where do you think/read-into "its apparently written in Javascript" ?

its an ASP based solution using FileSystemObject, the only JavaScript is, according to the manual:

ass-client-side.js.asp - This contains the client-side JavaScript error
      checking. It is auto populated with some ASP
      variables, which is why it has an ASP
      extension.

and looking inside the file, all it is doing is validating what the user enters in the search box......

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Posted By: Julianne
Date Posted: 07 May 2003 at 12:11pm

To be honest, I've no real idea. I must've got the wrong end of the stick but I'm sure I read it somewhere, maybe on the bigcoatposse site that blursoftware links to (can't check as the site is down at the moment).

Anyway, it turns out that I was making life more complicated for myself than I needed to . I incorporated the form into my page but removed the 'value="<%=gobj_searchTerm.outputSafeTerm%>"' from the the input tag for the text field.

Voila, no error messages and the search works perfectly without it (which leads me to wonder what the value="<%=gobj_searchTerm.outputSafeTerm%>" is for!)