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Thanks! This looks great. Ken At 09:33 AM 03/16/2005, you wrote: >Kenneth R. Irwin wrote: >>Unfortunately, I have not the first clue about how to go about doing that. >>I would have thought that it would be easy to find a "make your own search >>tool" link on the Mozilla website, but I can't find one. > >Here's an example of the search plugin that I adapted from one by James Day. > >The file has a ".src" extension and goes in the "searchplugins" folder >withiin your Firefox install. > >The label that appears in Firefox is the name attribute of search. >The icon is the updateIcon attribute of the Browser. I got lazy with >this one. For something else I used the favicon.ico of the site (it's >well sized for this) > >The key is that the form value supplied by the user is identified >something like: > <input name="term" user=""> >In this case the external form you are supplanting is expecting the >*user* to fill in the input field with the name "term". The rest of the ><input> values are simply things we need to supply to the form handling >script so it won't break. > >I filled in the browser update* values with a URL to mozdev but frankly >have only required that the referenced files be in the searchplugins >folder. At that point it just seems to work. > >Walter > >==== ># Status: Working ># Horizon Information Portal plugin for Mozilla ># ># By James Day, jday at cflc dot net ># ># Created: October 13, 2004 ># Last updated: October 14, 2004 ># Modified by Walter Lewis for HHPL: 15 Oct 2004 ># ># Note: Does a General Keyword search only. > ><search >version="7.1" >name="HHPL Catalogue (Keyword)" >description="Halton Hills Public Library Catalogue Search" >action="http://cat.hhpl.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp" >searchForm="http://cat.hhpl.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp" >method="GET" > > > ><input name="term" user=""> ><input type="hidden" name="menu" value="search"> ><input type="hidden" name="aspect" value="basic_search"> ><input type="hidden" name="sort" value=""> ><input type="hidden" name="npp" value="20"> ><input type="hidden" name="ipp" value="20"> ><input type="hidden" name="profile" value="hhpl"> ><input type="hidden" name="index" value="GW"> > ><input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search"> > ><interpret >resultListStart="<!-- RESULT LIST START -->" >resultListEnd="<!-- RESULT LIST END -->" >resultItemStart="<!-- RESULT ITEM START -->" >resultItemEnd="<!-- RESULT ITEM END -->" > > ></search> > ><browser >update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/HHPLkeywords.src" >updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/yahoo.gif" >updateCheckDays="30" > > Ken Irwin [log in to unmask] Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian (937) 327-7594 Thomas Library, Wittenberg University