Adding a product seach below a vert menu

[PaulCroubalian]

Hi

I'm trying to put a standard product search/browse box under the vertical menu on a template that I modified (cosmetically only). Searching the forums led me to this:

<form action="start.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="find" value="1">
<input type="text" name="searchfor" size="15" maxlength="15"> Search
</form>

Adding this snippet below the #VMENU section and above the #BOX section of ACTIVE05-Extras Red template creates a search box, but not to the shopping cart. I am including it as a seperate <td> and between <tr> </tr> </td> tags

Am I missing something? The Url is Welcome to www.itoverstock.net

Paul

[PaulCroubalian]

NM

After a little more thought and a lot more digging, I found this solution

<tr>
<th>
<form action="shopping/start.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="find" value="1">
Search Products<br/>
<input type="text" class="text" style='width: 140px;' name="searchfor" size="15" maxlength="15">
<img src="spacer.gif" border="0" width="140" HEIGHT="2"><br/><input type="submit" value="Find Now" class="FormLt1">
</form> <!-- This is where your form closing tag should be -->
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="center" valign="middle">
</form>&nbsp; </th>
</tr>

[kyle04]

In actual fact, the form misdirects when you are in the shopping area of the site.
The correct form action should read :

<form action="../shopping/start.php" method="post">

which avoids the url becoming :
http://www.itoverstock.net/shopping/shopping/start.php
when posting the form from the /shopping path.

AndyP

[PaulCroubalian]

Good catch


Fixed

Thanks