How is this done?

[XTI]

Hello ppl. You see the search on the menu bar on this site? How is it done?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Xti

[Frank62]

Yeah, with a computer.

What does your instruction source say?

[felgall]

Search is usually done with a simple form in the HTML that calls a fairly substantial server side script to do the actual processing.

[XTI]

Frank you should keep your day job, comedy is not your thing. But thanks for your deep and meaningful contibution anyways!

Felgall I know how to do SQL querries and get search results, my question is about that little box that opens up when you click on SEARCH to enter your querry value.
I have read the source code and it refers to some other code not visible in the page. Hence the question.

[Frank62]

Sorry Bubbah, but you didn't meet (all) the conditions.

You gave the impression of being someone who got an illegal version of Dreamweaver and without any study thought he could make money as a webmaster. Simply by having any problems solved by volunteers at Webdeveloper.com.

[XTI]

1. your impression is wrong.
2. world is packed with incompetent fools who got rich not because of their merits, u cant change it anyways.
3. sites like these work on camaraderie and desire to share knowledge no one if forcing you particularly to answer one way or another.
4. I am tired of yapping for no reason, do you have a technical answer say it, if not just ignore this thread . thanks.

[WebJoel]

Okay folks, -let's try to be nice to to each other (even if that means ignoring each other's mildly unhelpful remarks) or I'll be forced to lock this thread with my sup-mod powers. :D

[XTI]

Considering that I am getting no meaningful answers I am puting this thread on lock myself. Altough us mortals do not have the dizzying powers a moderator may posses, but I hope some day after years of hard work and practice and a diet of one dried piece of bread per day I might be so powerful myself !

Good bye world I can;t take it no more!

[Centauri]

Getting back to the original question, the coding of that link is :<td id="navbar_search" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">Search</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_search"); </script></td> which referes to a javascript routine in this external javascript file : http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js

I'm no javascript expert, so I won't attempt to analyse this past this point :confused:

[WebJoel]

Insomuch as this seems to be a javascript-related question, perhaps re-posting your question over on the javascript forum would get your some better assistance.