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I am tyring to have a search box on an external site capable of searching my zen-cart site.
In other words, I would like to have visitors at happy.biz be able to search in a search box which will take them to zen-cart-happy.biz to view the results.
Any help appreciated.
thanks.
It's fairly straightforward. Just look at the HTML generated for a header seach box. This is actually a complete form that passes the search terms to the advanced_search_result page. Create a similar form with the same action on your external site and you can pass search terms into your Zen Cart in the same way.
Kuroi's right... it's not difficult.
On one of our customer's external sites, we have the following HTML:
(Naturally, for privacy, I've changed our actual URL (above) to "OUR-WEB-SHOP" - so this is where you put your own webshop's URL)HTML Code:<div id="productSearch">
<form id="quick_find" action="http://www.OUR-WEB-SHOP.co.uk/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.OUR-WEB-SHOP.co.uk/index.php?main_page=advanced_search">Advanced search ></a></p>
<input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="advanced_search_result" />
<input type="hidden" name="search_in_description" value="1" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
Got it :) working per your suggestions...and thank for the help
much appreciated.