Q about search bar build up in html Options

[donny]

Hello,

i'm new here and a beginner.

i'm busy with building my first site and testing out allot of stuff.

now i understand how the search bar works and so but i was searching for more bars and i found this code on a website..

there is no information at the website about what it al means and whatever i search on google or other places, whenever i search on value="grid" i just wont get any answer.

is there someone that can explain me why there is a second hidden search field, i understood from some other site that it has something to do so that the author can input his own extra search strings but .. well.. i just don't see the logic in this one.

also i dont understand the name here, dff_view.. i dont see the logic again (maybe its becouse the courses and tutorials i did on the net were a bit different style)
also the same with <select name="dff_cat1num" size="1"> i just cant figure this one out.. sorry for the noobness.

hope someone can help me out, it does work but i want to know why and maybe if there is another way to do this so i understand what it does. (sorry for my bad english, i'm dutch)

<td id="searchBar">
<form name="searchBar" method="get" action="../somewhere/search.php">
<table width="680">
<input type="hidden" name="dff_view" value="grid">
Search:<input type="text" name="dff_keyword" size="30" maxlength="50"> in
<select name="dff_cat1num" size="1">
<option value="-1">Alle Categorieen
<option value="-2">--------------
<option value="101">Babies & Kids
<option value="102">Books & Magazines
<option value="103">Building Supplies
<option value="104">Cars & Trucks
<option value="105">Clothing & Accessories
<option value="106">Collectibles & Art
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Zoek">
</td>
</tr>

thx in advance

[pandy]

No, it doesn't use Google. The site uses its own search script, the URL to which is the value of the action attribute.

CODE

<form name="searchBar" method="get" action="../somewhere/search.php">

http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#form-howto