Drop down search box possible?

suprfli · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

I've created a test page here where I'm attempting to create something that is specific to my favorite sites and will fit neatly when browsing through my Treo phone. I'm familiar w/search strings used by something like Google or Imdb.com. I've been able to easily create some simple forms that allow me to enter text and then search a site from a single page(the test page I created) but to save even more page real estate I wanted to create a page that has a drop down and depending on the drop down I choose allows me to search based on that chosen drop down. If you look at the test page I created I borrowed some code from a site that does this drop down search using CGI. I don't have any intention of taking this code or using it but I want to create something similar maybe w/Java or DTML. I don't have CGI or PHP or anything special installed on my web server so i was hoping to keep it relatively simple.

Here's my existing code w/2 forms to search Google and also get a 5 day forecast for your zip code:

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

There are a few different ways

suprfli · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

Degsy: This is great! It works perfectly. I did notice however one small thing. Some search requests work if the method=get and others work is method=post. I don't understand the difference. What I did to get one search string to work was play around w/the google search I created.

I changed this:

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

You can experiment with manuipulating the form elements

suprfli · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

Thanks again for the reply. I actually found something really interesting. The first code that you provided works in every instance for the search strings that I entered.

What I found though, for example, is if I drop down the box for "Zip Weather", enter my zip code and then press enter I get:
"Method Not Allowed - The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /test03.htm."

HOWEVER, If I do the same thing and rather than pressing enter after typing the zip code or search string but rather click on the find button then everything works perfectly.

It seems that by pressing enter it doesn't do the query properly I guess. It requires you to click on the find button.

I'm going to try the other code that you just posted and check that out. Or maybe fixing the enter versus clicking on find is something easy to remedy?

Did a quick edit to fix a few typos

exit8babe · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

Hi - i am implementing a similar search feature on my site and was wondering if you figured out the submit functionality, so that users can press "enter" rather than the submit button.

thanks!

calvind123 · Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Degsy, where would I put my own links into your first code? Could you simplify it to make it easier to read?