Remote search box facility

[Traceygirl]

I am intending to use ZenCart in catalogue mode, will be installing it in a sub folder domain.com/products but would like to have a search box on the main site pages which are static html/php (whichever will be needed to make this work).

What I would like is that if someone wants to do a product search using keywords, then the normal search page will be returned.

So put simply. I would like a remote search box, on the same site, but on pages in the root folder, while the installation of Zc is in a sub folder.

is there an easy way to do this, or is it (as I think) a fairly simple coding task for a php dude?

Thanks

[CoolCarPartsOnline]

You can add Google Search to your domain, I never used it but its free search tool and a lot of site use it.
I have also seen php based search tools that are free, try to search for that in Google also, but I think Google search will work just fine.

[Traceygirl]

Hi , Thanks for that, but it wouldnt work as Google search only displays the content of pages it has in its database

I have a feeling I am going to have to get this hand coded.

Thanks for your reply though :)

[CoolCarPartsOnline]

There is free php based search mod that can be coded to any site. Look into the zen cart mod, Numinix have coded that php file to work with zen cart but if you Google the original mod it can be added to any site that use php such as Blogs, Forum or shopping carts

[schoolboy]

If you add this to a page on any remote site, it should work:

<div id="productSearch">
		<form id="quick_find" action="http://www.YOUR-WEBSHOP.COM/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result" method="get">
			<fieldset>
				<label for="keyword">Search our product catalogue</label>
				<input type="text" name="keyword"  id="keyword" size="20" maxlength="100" style="width: 145px" value="Enter search keywords" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Enter search keywords') this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value == '') this.value = 'Enter search keywords';" />
				<input name="submit" type="submit" class="submit" value="Go" />

				<p><a href="http://www.YOUR-WEBSHOP.COM/index.php?main_page=advanced_search">Advanced search &gt;</a></p>
				<input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="advanced_search_result" />
				<input type="hidden" name="search_in_description" value="1" />
			</fieldset>
		</form>
	</div>

... remembering of course to change:

http://www.YOUR-WEBSHOP.COM

... to "your webshop's URL" .

[Traceygirl]

I owe you a thousand thanks :)

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me here.