integrate search from with prefilled init value

[hmmwv]

hi
i´d like to integrate a search form with the album title filled in as init value.
can anybody help me with this? i´ve already tried a few things, but i can´t get it working  :x

the code for the searchbox is:

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<table width="324" height="50" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
                        <tr>
                          <td width="320" height="46">
                            <table width="100%" cellpadding="0">
                              <tr>
                                <td width="100%" align="center">
                                  <table>
                                    <tr>
                                      <td align="right" style="color:000000;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Search for Posters:  </td>
                                      <td align="left"><input type="text" name="Search_String" maxlength="100" size="23" value={ALBUM_TITLE}></td>
                                      <td><input name="image" type="image" src="http://images.art.com/images/aff/searchbox/go.gif" alt="Search Now"></td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table></td>
                              </tr>
                          </table></td>
                        </tr>
                                      </table>
                    <input type="hidden" name="T" value="15033145">
                    <input type="hidden" name="A" value="750842">
                    <input type="hidden" name="L" value="12">
                    <input type="hidden" name="P" value="0">
                    <input type="hidden" name="S" value="3">
                    <input type="hidden" name="Y" value="1">


i´d like to place the searchbox between the breadcrumbs and the thumbnails-table.
thx.
hmmwv

[Joachim Müller]

I don't get the point. What is above piece of code supposed to do? You can't insert this stuff into template.html and hope it works.

Reasons:
• you can use {ALBUM_TITLE} this way
• you didn't specify a <form> tag
• there are no php vars $T, $A, $L, $P, $S, $Y specified - no use in putting them into hidden fields[/list:u]Please give a more in-detailed description what you search form is supposed to to, where you want it to appear etc. instead of code that only is wishfull thinking...
  
  GauGau

[hmmwv]

it´s a search form for posters, take a look here:
http://www.celebrityfiles.net/index.php

[Casper]

so what you want is a drop down box, where the user just selects which album to search for.  Is this what you want?

[hmmwv]

no, i want a search form for an affiliateprogram like allposters which is prefilled with the albums name

[Joachim Müller]

in this case you'll need a bit of JavaScript to do the magic: insert it into the <form> tag (with onSubmit) - the JavaScript then manipulates the existing search form, adding the additional parameters to the user input and returning it to the form, which is then submit to the server.
As I said before: the code you posted above is bull (it displays stuff in HTML, but the data you send in the form won't be taken into account by the form-processing script.

GauGau