External Search Box

Hello OC Family!!

I have a client using OC, and he advertises on a forum.

He initially used eBay and he contacted us so that we could get him running off his own shop.

So far so good, only had a few issues with some of his customers having old browsers and the OC theme we used was probably a bit too modern...

ANYWAY

He had an ebay search box on the forum he advertised on, it looked like this;

<form name="search" method="get" action="http://search.stores.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll" target="_blank">
My ebay Store:
<input type="text" name="query" size="10">
<input type="submit" value="Go" width="20" height="16" border="0">
<input type="hidden" name="MfcISAPICommand" value="GetResult">
<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="111111111">
<input type="hidden" name="store" value="MYSTORE">
<input type="hidden" name="colorid" value="15">
<input type="hidden" name="fp" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="srchdesc" value="y">
</form>

Can we do something similar with opencart?

Any help much appreciated.

yes you can do the same with opencart. It would be something like

Hi Bud,

I tried that, and this is the url it sent me to;

http://www.TESTING.co.uk/index.php?filt ... cription=1

Whereas the link shown when actually searching is;

http://www.TESTING.co.uk/index.php?rout ... _name=test

We're close though!

Thanks mate!

Any luck getting this to work?

thanks for all the information guys

Our store is in another directory, and from the home page this little snippet works fine...

<form name="search" method="get" action="http://yoursite.com/store/index.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="route" value="product/search" />
<input onfocus="this.value=''" type="text" name="filter_name" value="search" />
<input type="submit" value="" />
</form>