Search string as URL

[Buzby]

Is it possible to enter a search results url as a section url so that when clicked it forwards to a search results page, as follows.

Red widgets goes to redwidgets.html
Yellow widgets goes to yellowwidgets.html

All widgets goes to search results page for widgets.

I have searched the forum but haven't found anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Jason

[rmorrow]

You could just run the search you want (i.e. type "widgets" into your search page) and then copy the URL from the browser address bar and put this into the link for your section. This of course implies you are "hard coding" the URL for your section links rather than allowing Actinic to sort it out.

[gabrielcrowe]

you could also take your search results string and use your htaccess to mod-rewrite the url, so that:

http://www.xyzshop.co.uk/search/red.html

resolves to:

http://www.xyzshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SS=red&action=Go!&PR=-1&TB=A&SHOP=

[gabrielcrowe]

try this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase    /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule search/(.*).htm cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SS=$1&PR=-1&TB=A

NOTE:
ss000001.pl MAY be different for you, if your perl script number is higher, for whatever reason.

examples:
http://www.skateasylum.co.uk/search/red.htm
http://www.skateasylum.co.uk/search/blue.htm
http://www.skateasylum.co.uk/search/purple.htm

[Buzby]

Many thanks for your replies.

Gabe, I did think a .htaccess file was the way to go but was hoping that I could some how just enter the string some where in Actinic.

Kind regards

Jason