OT: Useful start page

Mon Feb 2 23:50:40 UTC 2009

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Just a reminder that the 'Kubuntu Forums' search only takes you to the search page. I haven't 
> managed to figure out the code to do an actual search from the 'Start Page'.
> Somebody want to debug it?

Below is the full page, corrected.  Your Kubuntu form was using get
instead of post, and the input names were wrong.  I also
de-tag-soupified the page while I was at it.

Matt Flaschen

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Local Start Page</title>
  </head>
  <body onload="document.getElementById('Kubuntu').focus()">

    <h3>Useful search start page</h3>

    <p>
      This is a local page to avoid using the network on disconnected
machines.<br />
    </p>

    <p>
      <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/">O'RIELLY Linux
Commands</a>
      <br />
      <br />
    </p>

    <p>
      <a href="http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?" >Kubuntu
Forum Search</a>
    </p>
    <form id="searchform" name="searchform" method="post"
action="http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=search2">
      <p>
	<input type="text" size="31" name="search"/>
	<input type="submit" value="Search" name="submit"/>
      </p>
    </form>

    <p>
      <a href="http://www.google.com/linux">Google Linux Search</a>
    </p>
    <form action="http://www.google.com/linux" method="get">
      <p>
	<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="Linux" />
	<input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="linux" />
	<input type="submit" value="Search" />
      </p>
    </form>

    <p>
      <a
href="http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&tab=wi">Google

	Image Search</a>
    </p>

    <form action="http://www.google.com/images" method="get"
id="google_images">
      <p>
	<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="google-input" />
	<input type="submit" value="Search" />
      </p>
    </form>

    <p>
      <a href="http://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&tab=w1">YouTube Search</a>
    </p>

    <form action="http://www.youtube.com/results?search" method="get"
id="google">
      <p>
	<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="youtube-google-input" />
	<input type="submit" value="Search" />
      </p>

    </form>

    <p>
      <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google General Search</a>
    </p>

    <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get"
id="google_general">
      <p>
	<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="google_general-input" />
	<input type="submit" value="Search" />
      </p>
    </form>

    <p>
      <a href="http://directory.google.com/">Google Web Directory</a>
    </p>

    <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
      <p>
	<input type="hidden" name="cat" value="gwd/Top" />
	<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" value="" />
	<input type="submit" value="Search" />
      </p>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>