Customiing Results Page

john34 · Post by **john34** » Mon Feb 26, 2001 5:46 pm

I've been trying to find documentation on how to customize the results page, can you direct me to the URL with this info, or can you provide me with the documentation on how to do this?

Thanks!

Post by **mark** » Mon Feb 26, 2001 6:18 pm

See the manual under "Customizing Webinator's Appearance"
http://www.thunderstone.com/site/gw25man/node9.html

john34 · Post by **john34** » Tue Feb 27, 2001 7:53 pm

I looked at those pages and they do not mention how to put the results page into an html template to match my site's layout.

Thanks again!

Post by **mark** » Wed Feb 28, 2001 10:15 am

The results page is generated by the search script, which you will have to edit to customize. If you're using the default search script there are "top" and "bottom" functions near the top of the file that generate the beginning of page and end of page boilerplate html respectively. That's where you would put your template.

john34 · Post by **john34** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 12:20 pm

I was able to edit the page by entering simple text, but when I dropped in my html I received the following error:

015 /webinator/newsearch:122: Missing start double quote in value

Once I deleted the HTML I added the error was gone.

Post by **mark** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 12:49 pm

You apparently had an unbalanced quote in your html. When you place it in again check the script at the line number given in the message. Line 122 in the message you gave. The problem may be related to your javascript. Search this board for "javascript" to find out how to embed javascript into vortex.

john34 · Post by **john34** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 12:58 pm

Okay, I fixed that problem now this has popped up:

015 /webinator/newsearch:115: Function `top' is unterminated
215 /webinator/newsearch:41: `top' was started here

Post by **John** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 1:03 pm

You might want to escape your javascript by enclosing it in <VERB NOESC>....</VERB>, and also make sure that all your <A>s have corresponding </A>s.

alistvideos · Post by **alistvideos** » Tue May 01, 2001 9:02 pm

Hello, I have the same problem as above. The error message I received: 015 /webinator/narrowmetarev:451: Missing start double quote in value

(narrowmetarev-is a name I made up.)

My question is - How do I find line #451?
Is there an easier way than manually counting?

Thanks, Paul

Post by **John** » Tue May 01, 2001 10:13 pm

How to go to a particular line will depend on the editor you are using. With notepad you can use CTRL-G or choose Go To from the Edit menu. In this case the problem is related to the ADBANNER function.