Hi,
I am wondering how... well, a simple search form at a html page.
The search form contains a text box and a select option. Options include "search this site" and "search the web". When the user select "search the web", the script search.cgi will simply skip all the "search this site" stuffs and go on to query altavista and display result. One of the "problem" (or not a problem at all) is that I've already installed the "search sub-category mod".
I know this is not something too difficult to do but I just kinda mess up and not very good at perl. Anyone please help?

Robbie

Whoever owns yahoosuck managed to pull it off.

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- Jonathan Gamble

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Sort of, but what I think Robbie is asking for is the ability for visitors to select searching either his directory or the Net using altavista.cgi.

Right, Robbie?

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it's simple..

you can just put like


that's all.. if you wanted to make it template based.. that' another story.. you can put the results into site_html_link easily..

jerry

How would you do it template based. Or have one page that shows your search results plus altavista's search results under them? Or anything similar. I'm working on having a drop-down list to select if you want to search altavista or my site (links search.cgi).

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- Jonathan Gamble

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Yup, Eliot, that's my idea
Hey Jerry, where should I put the code?

Merci

Robbie

sorta like this..

http://www.pdamania.com/...amp;search=Altavista

that is links sql.. but still.. i just slabbed altavista.cgi into search.cgi..

it's really easy

jerry

 
haha.. don't forget u are the smartest one here

Robbie

ok.. now it's using search.cgi's templates.. but i don't know if i should use the links templates.. cause it doesn't have hits etc.. i could make another one.. but i don't plan on using it.. so why should i

look at the site again.. i am constantly changing it..

jerry

Wow.. u are in High School right?
Seriously, where should I put the code? I'm not that smart
I mean what should I do....

Robbie

[This message has been edited by Robbie (edited October 23, 1999).]

How did you do it? What I am looking for is a way to use templates in altavista.cgi or a way to integrate it into search.cgi so you can display your results plus altavista's.

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- Jonathan Gamble

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you can do that too..

jerry

whoa.. altavista changed their layout.. now altavista.cgi won't work.. i've gotta make some new parsing code

jerry

I need you to help me on how to do it. I'm not a cgi genious like you.

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- Jonathan Gamble

http://www.linkondemand.com/

i do not see how you can do it?
first results from your data followed by altavista.cgi similar to what snap.com does
with their data and inktomi

Hi Guys,

You might want to wait for a couple of days because, Altavista is releasing a new site in a couple of days with a whole new layout.

they are not likely to change the layout of their remote search.. it's been the same for YEARS... (it's not the same as the search on their homepage)

How can I use altavista.cgi to display a template or templates...?

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- Jonathan Gamble

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[This message has been edited by jdgamble (edited October 24, 1999).]

it makes your search slower.. but it can be done really easily.. you just have to sorta have like another set of links_results..

jerry

(the news will only work for 24hrs so the link is broken now)

Go there for the full story on altavista's new beta look...

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[This message has been edited by jdgamble (edited October 26, 1999).]

Ummmm.. I messed up my script once again.. 'n still don't get it.

Robbie

altavista.cgi no longer work people. did anyone figure out a way to fix it?

The reason it doesn't work any longer, theguy, is because Altavista has changed its search engine (as has been mentioned about three or four times in this Thread). It will take a few days to figure out their search process and edit the altavista.cgi file.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Founder and Editor
Anthro TECH, L.L.C
http://www.anthrotech.com/
info@anthrotech.com
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Coconino Community College
http://www.coco.cc.az.us/
Web Technology
Coordinator
elee@coco.cc.az.us

i understand that, i been trying to fix it for the last few hours with no luck.
why do think it would take afew days to fix it. i thought a really smart guy
would fix it in afew hours

Has anyone figured out how to display the atlavista results corecttly since they have changed their serch engine?

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