OT: Useful start page

Thu Feb 19 11:15:48 UTC 2009

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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>
> 
thanks for that, I have edited and saved. I do not think Ubuntuforums 
can be called in the same way as they ask a "confirmation question" when 
you search. Anyone that can correct me?

Sinclair