search page questions

[drummond]

hi again, i've just got 3 questions about problems i'm having with the search page of my site...if anyone can help, it'd be much appreciated!

1. non-logged in customers don't receive any results when searching - i've tried manually taking out the default NETQUOTEVAR:NAVBSEARCH and replacing it with a link to a cgi-bin search page, but this only seems to bring up a notice about denied permission to use cookies!

2. unless the cgi-bin link is manually in the nav bar, i get a problem navigating to the search page from any of the 'Please wait for your browser to forward you to the next page or click here' pages - a general script error page pops up with 'Error: Bad input string "PRODUCTPAGE=http://localhost/cgi-bin/bb000001.pl?PRODUCTPAGE=*page just come from.html*search.html". Argument count 2' ...how can i alter the referral link to delete the extra page reference from the links?

3. how can i get to the <a href> tags for <Actinic: s_link/> on the results page - i need to alter them to put in a span tag...

i wouldn't normally ask for so much help, but the site's 95% finished and i'm at the end of my tether!:( any help at all would be nice...

[NormanRouxel]

3. how can i get to the <a href> tags for <Actinic: s_link/> on the results page - i need to alter them to put in a span tag...

You might be able to fit the SPAN into Act_ResultsTemplate.html. Try putting it around:

<Actinic:S_LINK/><B><Actinic:S_PNAME/></B></A>


as here:-

<SPAN style="{background: yellow;}"><Actinic:S_LINK/><B><Actinic:S_PNAME/></B></A></SPAN>

Where I get nice shiny yellow search results.


Unfortunately the HREF code seems to be generated in SearchScript.pl and you probably don't want to tinker there.

Norman

[cdicken]

Could you post a URL and a username and password that we can use for testing?

[drummond]

the url is www.cbconline.co.uk/index2.html (http://www.cbconline.co.uk/index2.html) , the password and username are both 'administrator' - if you click on the load shopping cart button, then the search button in the next page you *should* see what i mean...if it hasn't magically cleared itself up!

thanks norman, by the way - sounds like i could do that instead :)

[cdicken]

Hmmm - the site seems to work OK for me.

Anyway, try using this URL for the address of the search page:

http://www.cbconline.co.uk/cgi-local/ss000001.plSECTIONID=search%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

This should work equally well for logged in and non-logged in customers.

[drummond]

cheers, that works fine! but i'm still not getting any search results for non-logged in/unregistered customers...

is this simply a checkbox i've missed or is it just not possible? :confused:

[cdicken]

Your store at the moment seems to be closed to unregistered customers, so this would affect the search results as well. Check your settings in 'Business Settings | Ordering'.