Drop down search box

[Steven Barkess]

Hi there

I am looking at creating a drop down search box on every page on my site, but not sure if this is possible.

My product catelogue is made up of records with Artist/Title/Label etc.

I want my drop down list to appear like:

New In
Complete Catelogue
Artist 1
Artist 2
Artist 3
etc

Is this easily achievabe.

Thanks for any direction

Steven

[cdicken]

Hi there

Are these categories you mention actually different sections in your store? If so, you can use code similar to the following in your overall layout template (normally Act_Primary.html):

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://your.URL/ss000001.pl">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="NOLOGIN" VALUE="1">
<P>Select a category:
<SELECT SIZE="1" NAME="SECTIONID">
<option value="artist%5f1%2ehtml">Artist 1
<option value="artist%5f2%2ehtml">Artist 2
...
</select>
<input type="Submit" value="go">
</FORM>

where the values of the options are the filenames of your section pages (encoded so that an underscore '_' becomes '%5f' and a full stop '.' becomes '%2e').

Naturally, you have to customise the above text to work with your web site.