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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
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This chapter tackles one of the most important parts of an e-commerce website—the search function. Offering intuitive search options is crucial for a successful online business where customers browse on their own to find the products they need or never even knew existed.
In this chapter, we will talk about how to:
Add help text to your search-box input field
Set the search-result value independent of admin listings
Add an All Manufacturers page to the Manufacturers infobox
Customize your product listing with individual boxes for each manufacturer
If your shop maintains a flat categories tree, and doesn't have more than one subcategory level, you can fit a search box into the top navigation bar (even for a screen resolution of 800x600 pixels). This recipe will show you how to move your search box to be visible at first glance, and how to modify code for better search results. Currently, the search box can really...
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour