Search on a non-dynamic site

Question

I'm real curious as to how you would go about adding search
capabilities
to a non-dynamic site. Below is a link to a site I visited
where they
have a search function but all pages are html so it doesn't
appear to be
data driven. Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'd sure
like to
know how this is done.
http://www.horizonfurniture.net/
Thanks for any insight.
Fred

Answer 1

On Thu 17 Aug 2006 02:10:08p, Old Dog_New Trick wrote in
macromedia.dreamweaver:
> to a non-dynamic site. Below is a link to a site I
visited where they
> have a search function but all pages are html so it
doesn't appear to be
> data driven. Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'd
sure like to
> know how this is done.
>
http://www.horizonfurniture.net/
Just because the extension is one file type doesn't
necessarily mean that
it is that file type. I have a site which uses serverside
includes on all
the pages. As the site started with static pages, and since
it was well-
spidered with the .html extensions, the server is now set up
so that
anything with a .html extension is parsed as if it were
.shtml. That's
relatively easy to do on an Apache server, which is what
hosts the site in
question.
The other clue that this is the case is in the search form
itself:
<form style='display:inline' name=search184 method=post
action='results.html'>
See the action attribute? Normally that would have to be some
kind of
script; in this case, it's a 'plain' html page, though when
you go there,
there are dynamically generated results.