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Posted by gstupar on June 3, 2010 at 10:04pm

Hi Fellow Librarians,

I'm trying to make a search box with radio buttons, where one radio button searchs our sirsi catalog, the next searches our website, and the last searches google......................

I can get this piece of Javascript to work in an HTML file but am unable to install this in a block. Any thoughts? I noticed on ASU's library site and some other sites, you've all gotten this to work. If anyone can throw me a bone my email address is gstupar@northbrook.info. What am I doing wrong? It's almost like the block is stripping the tags. I tried full html, filtered html, and then php and then NOTHING for format. So yea. Thanks for your help!

function PerformSearch()
{
if(document.siteSearch.srchPlace[0].checked)
{
var field1 = document.createElement("input");
field1.id = "searchLibraryField";
field1.name = "searchdata1";
field1.type = "hidden";
field1.value = document.siteSearch.q.value;

 var field2 = document.createElement("input");
 field2.name = "user_id";
 field2.type = "hidden";
 field2.value = "nbkibistro";
 var field3 = document.createElement("input");
 field3.name = "password";
 field3.type = "hidden";
 field3.value = "ibistro"
 var field4 = document.createElement("input");
 field4.name = "library";
 field4.type = "hidden";
 field4.value = "NORTHBROOK"
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field1);
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field2);
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field3);
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field4);
document.siteSearch.action ="http://64.107.155.140/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/x/57/5"; 

}
else
if(document.siteSearch.srchPlace[1].checked)
{
document.forms.siteSearch.method="post";
var field1 = document.createElement("input");
field1.id = "searchField";
field1.name = "search_block_form";
field1.type = "hidden";
field1.value = document.siteSearch.q.value;

 var field2 = document.createElement("input");
 field2.id = "form-6af56005d14f8a14883ed97046620434";
 field2.name = "form_build_id";
 field2.type = "hidden";
 field2.value = "form-6af56005d14f8a14883ed97046620434"; 
 var field3 = document.createElement("input");
 field3.id = "edit-search-block-form";
 field3.name = "form_id";
 field3.type = "hidden";
 field3.value = "search_block_form"; 
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field1);
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field2);
 document.forms.siteSearch.appendChild(field3); 
document.siteSearch.action ="http://www.northbrook.info/search/node";

}
else
if(document.siteSearch.srchPlace[2].checked)
{
document.siteSearch.action ="http://www.google.com/search";
}
}

Test Form

Library Catalog
Library Website
Google

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