Search boxes on pront page of site

criscokid · July 27th, 2006, 07:45 AM

I'd like to put the ReviewPost and PhotoPost 'search' box on my portal front page to make it eaven easier for visitors to my site to find products.

Is it going to be as straightforward as copying the search box code or are there things I need to be aware of? (as this code will be in / but my gallery is in is in /gallery and my photos in /gallery)

Chuck S · July 27th, 2006, 07:50 AM

If you mock it up correctly in html you should be able to achieve that

criscokid · July 27th, 2006, 09:26 AM

I've been poking around and eventually found the code... in searchbox.tmpl - can I just take all of that code as it is and put it into an HTML block? I also don't know to tell the code that it's not operating in /reviews (so that all of the variables are properly declared) - how do I do that?

Chuck S · July 27th, 2006, 10:38 AM

No you would take the code from your page source or something like this

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

criscokid · July 29th, 2006, 11:24 AM

That seems to be working great! Thanks Chuck for the time taken to show me the example... the time you took will definitely be of help for me in the future... I do try help myselfd before posting on the forums but sometimes I just need to be shown the starting block. Thanks mate!!

Is it at all possible to restict a search (from this type of search box) to certain categories or fields within each product?

Chuck S · July 29th, 2006, 04:15 PM

You would need to place a hidden input box with the name mcats and the value listed like 502,503,504 etc

criscokid · July 31st, 2006, 10:31 AM

I'm enjoying this learning a bit about search boxes.

No wall I need to know... when PP or RP does a search is it searching on all fields? If it is... how do I tell it to search on on the title field or a specific product field?

Chuck S · July 31st, 2006, 11:36 AM

You can look at your search template to get the inout names and conditions of all those variables