On 15 Aug 2008, at 20:21, Jody Cleveland wrote:
I work for a consortium of 30 libraries. Each library has their own
website, but they all share the same web catalog. On each library's
website there is a search box to search the catalog, which is on a
completely different server from the websites. We've been finding
that once people use that search box, they get distracted with the
catalog and have no easy way to get back to the library's website.
The problem I was tasked with is, coming up with a way to search the
catalog with an easy way to return to where the user was before they
initiated the search.
The only way I thought to do this was to use a frameset for the
search results. Which, you can see here:
http://beta.menashalibrary.org/sites/beta.menashalibrary.org/themes/salamander/searchframe.html
Is POST the only way to get the search results, or will it work with a
GET?
If GET will work then you need to set the search form to post to a
script on your site which then outputs a frameset with a URL on your
server that shows the header, and the URL for the shared search server
with all the POSTed variables as GET parameters as the second frame.
Job done.
If not then you're going to need to play silly wotsits with a hidden
form in the top frame which reposts the search to the bottom form. Not
pretty and would require JS but it should work.
-Stut
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