Snitz Forums 2000 - searching web and snitz from same input box

Snitz Forums 2000

Username:	Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?

All Forums

Community Forums

Code Support: ASP (Non-Forum Related)

searching web and snitz from same input box

New Topic

Topic Locked

Printer Friendly

Author

Topic

e3stone
Average Member

USA
885 Posts

Posted - 20 April 2001 : 22:13:29

On the top of my front forum page I have two search boxes. The one that searches the link manager mod and one from lycos which searches the web. How would I be able to make one input box and have a drop-down list box giving the user the choice of searching the web or my link manager? My page is http://galileandesigns.com/forum/newdefault.asp and I want my search box to look like the one at the top of Cnet's page http://www.cnet.com Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Eric

Marino
Starting Member

Canary Islands
42 Posts

Posted - 20 April 2001 : 23:46:20

Code for the main search form


<form action="redirect_search.asp" method=get target="_blank">
      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="black" align=center width="100%">
      <tr> 
            <td align="middle" bgcolor="white"> 
              <div align="center">
                <input type="hidden" name="lpv" value="1">
                <input type="hidden" name="loc" value="lycosinc">
                <font size=-1><b>Search the web:</b></font> 
                <input type="text" name="query" size=30>
                <input type="hidden" name="num" value="30">
                <SELECT name="option">
                  <OPTION value="lycos">Lycos</option>
                  <OPTION value="insidewaco">InsideWaco</option>
                </select>
                <input type="submit" value="Go Get It" border=0>
              </div>
            </td>
      </tr>
      </table>
</form>

Now create file called redirect_search.asp. This file should have this


<%
if Request("option") = "lycos" then
  Response.redirect "http://www.lycos.com/srch/?query=" & Server.HTMLEncode(Request("query")) & "&lpv=1&loc=lycosinc"
else
  Response.redirect "http://galileandesigns.com/forum/links_search.asp?search=" & Server.HTMLEncode(Request("query")) & "&num=" & Request("num")
end if
%>

This do the trick. I removed the option to specify the number of results as it is useless for lycos. If you want it back, just change the hidden num for a radio.

Marino