I use a very simple search box/function on my blog - just a few lines of html - which works very well.

I presumed I could simply take that code and insert it into a forum I run, but although the search box displays and operates okay, it returns a forum fault page that says 'Woooops! Document not found! Go back to home page'

The forum already has a search function, but users have to navigate to another page to reach it. I wanted to do this so that the search box was always there in the sidebar.

Sorry if this is a neive question, but why won't it work like it does on my blog? If it helps the code is shown below

<form id="searchthis" action="/search" style="DISPLAY: inline" method="get"><input id="search-box" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 1px solid; FONT-SIZE: 10px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; COLOR: #777777; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 1px solid" value="Search" name="q" size="25" type="text/"/></form>

You will have to make sure that your form's ACTION attribute is set to the same as the normal search form's. Also you must ensure that you pass all the information that that page is expecting - there may be hidden fields that you must pass through too.

Thanks, stoot. So is all that something I can discover myself, or would that data only be available to the owners of the site that provides the forums - in this case runboard.com ?

I've now ammeded this code so that the form's ACTION attribute is set to the same as the normal search form's.

When I use the forum's default search box, the same url is displayed, regardless of the search query, but despite me inserting this url into the ACTION attribute field, it still doesn't work.

Now when I try to use my own search box and hit return, I just get taken to the forum's default search box/page.

What do I need to do so that when I use my own search box, I'm taken to the RESULTS page? I know stoot has answered this, but I didn't understand anything beyond him telling me to change the form's action attribute.

Any more help would be very much appreciated.