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]
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Thomas Library, Wittenberg University