Activating search function??

[Erreck]

Alright, here's the basics... I purchased this OSC template and have it 99% complete. The last, and biggest thing, that I need to do is figure out how to get the search function available on my site. If I go into my file manager and select the "advanced_search" file, I can click on the associated URL and up comes my site with a search box. HOWEVER, this is the only way I've been able to get to the search function. (Forgive my stupidity...) I can't figure out how to get the search function available to potential shoppers... Is it somewhere in the admin functions? Do I need to add some type of code to the index?

 

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

I'm at a loss and really want to get this thing live soon!

 

Thanks in advance!

[ErollorD]

I don't know if I understand you right but you want to add search box/fucntion to your template. Well the normal search box code is something like this

 

<form id="quick_find" name="quick_find" action="yourpagelink/advanced_search_result.php" method="get"><input name="search_in_description" value="1" type="hidden"><input name="keywords" size="10" maxlength="30" type="text"> <input src="includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_quick_find.gif" alt="Quick Find" title=" Quick Find " border="0" type="image"><br>Use keywords to find the product you are looking for.<br><a href="yourpagelink/advanced_search.php"><b>Advanced Search</b></a></form>

 

I think this should work... you replace links with your page links...

[Erreck]

I don't know if I understand you right but you want to add search box/fucntion to your template.

 

 

Yes AND no... I already have the search function in the template including all the needed code. The problem, is that, when you're on my homepage (or anywhere else in the site) you cannot find a "search" link. So, if I have a potential customer visit my site and they dont want to go through all the drop downs but instead want to type a part # into a search box, they can't because it doesn't exist to them... As I said before, if I go through my file manager I can open the search page and do any search I want just fine. So, it's there, just not accessable to Joe customer.