Gossamer Forum: Products: DBMan: Customization: Search on default.shtml

Can you help me?

I am trying to set up a seach form from the first page of my website, (which is a *.shtml page). I would like the search to only look in the descriptions and titles, and I would like the user to have an option of picking a category in which to search.

I have searched the forum for an answer on how to get the seach to work from outside of dbman, and it seems as if others are doing it. I was unable, however, to locate the code that they were using that would allow them to do so.

For starters, I assume that I would need to put in the search from some hidden fields, like

Code:
<input type="hidden" name="db" value="default"> 
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="default">

Here is what I am thinking:

Code:
<form method="post" action="?????"> 
                          <img border="0" src="images/mag.jpg" width="11" height="11"> 
                          <font color="#003300"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">S</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">ELECT 
      A </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">C</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">ATEGORY</font></font>		 
                          <br> 
<select name = "index"> 
<option value= "books"> Books 
<option value= "music"> Chairs  
<option value= "none" selected> Select One 
</select> 

<input type="hidden" name="db" value="default"> 
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="default"> 

 <input type="text" name="keyword-search" size="15"> 
                          <img border="0" src="images/go.jpg" width="20" height="20"> 
                        </form>

Do you know how to make this work!?!

[This message has been edited by dataKing (edited January 31, 2000).]

Uh...search this forum more carefully and you will find the answer...

Anyway, use the following codes:

Code:
<form method="get" action="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi"> 
<input type="hidden" name="db" value="default"> 
<input type="hidden" name="uid" value="default"> 
<input type="text" name="TITLE" size="15"> 
<select name = "index"> 
<option value= "---" selected>Select One 
<option value= "books"> Books 
<option value= "music"> Chairs  
</select> 
<input type="submit" name="view_records" value="Search"> 
</form>

Change TITLE to the name of your title field.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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Anthro TECH,L.L.C
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