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zeroseven

Jun 15 2003, 02:13 PM

Hi,

I've just been tweakin a site for a client... and I came up with this as my Search field:

http://www.hopehardcore.com/

You'll notice I have a Dropmenu for more "advanced" searching... but because I have this, it automatically adds the "IncludeBlogs=" tag into the URL of the Search.cgi page.

What I want is an "ALL" option in my search bar, but it seems like there is no such available...

Can anyone help me with this, or let me know if there is a value meaning "all" available out there?

zeroseven

Jun 16 2003, 02:23 PM

bump

kadyellebee

Jun 16 2003, 02:31 PM

I don't know how your script for the drop down is coded, but I believe that if there isn't an IncludeBlogs tag, it should default to ALL. So can you make the drop down read "ALL" and have that output nothing for that line of the search code?

Kristine

zeroseven

Jun 16 2003, 05:21 PM

Thanks for the reply

It looks like this:

CODE

<form method="get" action="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>">
Search this site:
<input name="search" class="form" id="search2" size="25">
<select name="IncludeBlogs" class="form">
<option value="3">News</option>
<option value="4">Reviews</option>
<option value="5">Interviews</option>
</select>
<input name="submit" type="submit" class="form2" value="SEARCH">
</form>

zeroseven

Jun 22 2003, 12:04 PM

help?

girlie

Jun 22 2003, 12:12 PM

As far as I know, there isn't an option meaning "all"; you'd either have to use no IncludeBlogs statement, or list every blog you wanted to include. Using an empty value returned errors in my test.

zeroseven

Jun 22 2003, 05:14 PM

thanks

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