If it's a .dll that is called as a URL then you should be able to
1. grab your form vars
2. call the .dll using CFHTTP (or variants), passing the form vars to the .dll (as if the form had been submitted as per usual)
3. receive the results
4. display results or parse and massage the results, outputting them how you please.
HTH
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Griefer
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:40 AM
Subject: OT: dtSearch
Hi all:
A while back, somebody here recommended dtSearch as an alternative to
Verity. We've purchased the product, and in a nutshell, we're pretty
happy with it.
However, dtSearch builds its search form (automatically) inside of a
frameset. left frame is search form/results, right frame is target
for search results (click a search result in the left frame, document
is displayed in the right).
We're trying to do away with the frames and embed the search and
results directly into our pages...primarily to maintain our look and
feel.
I can do the search form itself...but the action attribute of the form
is a .dll file (/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll). This currently presents me
the search results (a la Google) on its own page. Problem is I want
to embed this into our current page. If I change the action attribute
of the search form to 'page2.cfm' (for example), I'm not quite sure
how to go about getting the form data to the .dll and embedding the
results into the .cfm page.
I've got an email into dtSearch (who, FWIW, have been very
responsive), but I'm not quite sure how far they'll go to support my
desire to use CF and maintain our own look and feel.
Hoping somebody else might have done this already...or might know how
I can more effectively use/manipulate the .dll file (instead of using
it as the form's action page...somehow passing it attributes and doing
a <cfinclude>-type deal on it.
?
Thx!
--
Charlie Griefer
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