At 6:16 AM 7/8/4, Greg Kelly wrote:
> We would like a basic search box at the top of each page that
> will allow the visitor to type in a keyword and then quickly search
> the contents of our OWN SITE ONLY.

If you can put a search engine on your server then you can index it
yourself. Another option, if you don't mind the results page having a
search engine's logo at the top, is to use a "site:" argument in your
search term to restrict the searching to a specific site.

Try this to see... go to Google, Yahoo, or other search engines which
support site-specific search, and enter this term:
site:macromedia.com impactful

You'll receive a bunch of press releases which use a word which doesn't
really exist outside of marketers' groupspeak, but all of these will be
from only the one site.

To use this in a button on your site, the basic plan is to capture the form
input as a JavaScript variable and append it, escaped, to
"http://www.google.com/search?q=" or whatever. (I've done it before but
wouldn't want to risk off-the-cuff scripting here, so checking the web for
examples would be better.)

jd






John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco
(Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!)
Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/
Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd



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