Simple Search Not Searching!

[SteveECrane]

Good morning folks,

If I try to perform a 'simple search' from here:

http://www.jardin-d-eden.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

I get ALL of my products in the results, not a searched sub-set.

A customer complained a moment ago about this search error ... but we've no idea how long it's been like this as we only ever search our site using Actinic's "Advanced Search" (lesson learnt!). As such, I have no idea which amendment we've made (if any!) which has caused this.

Any ideas?


And now for a couple of less-important 'formatting' errors:-

Does anyone else have problems with their Actinic-generated web-sites rendering incorrectly in Mozilla Firefox? All my 'body' or 'descriptive' text (for want of better terms) is displaying much smaller than in Internet Explorer. Is this something readily cured by modifying their Actinic CSS for that Theme? Is this a known 'incompatibility between MS IE and Firefox, or does the CSS simply need to be redefined differently for Firefox-accessed (Actinic) sites?

Secondly, I don't know if anyone else out there is (or has been) having problems with this, but If I use single quotes in certain Actinic On-Line Shop titles, I get IE errors, e.g. here:

http://www.jardin-d-eden.co.uk/acata..._Editions.html

" A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to debug?

Line 2066
Error: Expected ';' "

Not too important ... but I wondered what was going on as I cannot seem to cure it unless I remove them, which is sometimes more tricky than it sounds if you're anally retentive in the grammar and punctuation department!


Cheers.

Wishing you and yours a happy, peaceful and rewarding New Year.

[Bruce]

Hi Steve,

A Happy, Peaceful and rewarding New Year to yourself too.

If I try to perform a 'simple search' from here:

http://www.jardin-d-eden.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

I get ALL of my products in the results, not a searched sub-set.

This is happening because you have not given the search function a value to search for, if you type something into the 'Quick Search' area, it will either return results or tell you there were no matching products. If the search field only displays the default 'Quick Search' and you click on 'Go' it will bring up all your products.

The formatting between IE and Firefox is an issue as each browser has its own way of displaying. The look of your site is a lot more compact and together in Firefox, whereas in IE the Navigation Bar has the login buttton on the 2nd row, this is because IE is picking and displaying all extra spaces, whereas firefox is stripping it out and displays the Nav bar on one line. The same stands for the single quotes, IE does not like them whereas Firefox formats and displays without an issue. You will have to work out the middle ground depending on how many people are viewing your site in a particular Browser.

Kind regards,

[SteveECrane]

Bruce,

Good afternoon!

Sorry, but if I type "NOMOS" into the "Simple Search" down the left-hand side of our web-site's "Online Shop" pages and click on "Go", it displays EVERYTHING.

If I place the same term in "Search words" field of the search at the top of this same page, then I do indeed get a sub-set as anticipated.

As to Mozilla's Firefox and MS's IE, is there no way of defining fonts, etc., in the relevant CSS which allows for absolute sizes to be rendered rather than relativeor values otherwsise (mis-)'interpreted'?

Cheers.

PS Sorry if the above is a touch too naive!

[Duncan Rounding]

You have something configured wrong on the page relating to the search action. I think the <input type=Text" is missing....>
You can compare yours and mine:

Yours*************

<FORM NAME=simplesearch ACTION="http://www.jardin-d-eden.co.uk/cgibin/ss000001.pl" METHOD="GET">
<TR VALIGN="middle">
<TD ALIGN="center" NOWRAP> <BR>
<INPUT NAME="ACTION2" TYPE="image" ID="ACTION" SRC="quicksearch.gif" WIDTH="49" HEIGHT="19" BORDER="0" ALT="Go!">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PR2" VALUE="-1">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="TB2" VALUE="A">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="TB" VALUE="A">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SHOP2" VALUE="">
</TD>
</TR>
</FORM>


Mine***************

<form name=simplesearch action="http://www.fancylines.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl" METHOD="GET">
<tr>
<td valign=middle noWrap align=left>
<input type="TEXT" name="SS" size="11" maxsize="125" value="Quick search" onFocus="this.value='';this.style.background='#FFFFFF'"> &nbsp;
<input type="image" border="0" name="ACTION" src="acatalog/quicksearch.gif" alt="Go!">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PR" VALUE="-1">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="TB" VALUE="A">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SHOP" VALUE="">
</td>
</tr>
</form>