Setting Up the Header

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Note

Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use Windows Search for client side search and Microsoft Search Server Express for server side search.

 

The <SCRIPT LANGUAGE> and </SCRIPT> tags turn scripting on and off. This example turns on a Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) command, option explicit.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN" "html.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
 
    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" RUNAT="Server">
    <!--
        option explicit
      -->
    </SCRIPT>
 
    <TITLE>Index Server Search Form</TITLE>
 
    <META NAME="<b>DESCRIPTION</b>" CONTENT="Sample ASP query form for Microsoft Index Server">
    <META NAME="<b>KEYWORDS</b>"    CONTENT="query, content, hit, asp">
    <META NAME="<b>MS.LOCALE</b>"   CONTENT="EN-US">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="<b>Content-Type</b>" CONTENT="text/html" charset=Windows-1252">

In the preceding HTML code, the bold type contains a sampling of meta tags:

Description

Sets the abstract that a client sees in the query results.

Keywords

Lists keywords a client can search for in a query.

MS.Locale

Sets the language code for this form. EN-US stands for American English. For a complete list of supported language codes, see Valid Locale Identifiers.

Content-Type

Determines the character set (charset) that is used; for example, the Latin alphabet or the Hebrew alphabet. For a complete set of supported tags, see Recognized Character Set Tags.

The next section turns form variables into server-side VBScript variables. The actual query form appears later in the file. Positioning the form data here allows the form fields to be pre-initialized, which causes the text of your query to reappear in the form field after the query results are displayed.

<%
    NewQuery = FALSE
    UseSavedQuery = FALSE
    <b>QueryForm = Request.ServerVariables( "PATH_INFO" )</b>
    SearchString = ""
    if Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_METHOD") = "POST" then
        SearchString = Request.Form("SearchString")
        pg = Request.Form("pg")
 
        if pg <> "" then
           NextPageNumber = pg
           NewQuery = FALSE
           UseSavedQuery = TRUE
        else
            NewQuery = SearchString <> ""
        end if
     end if
 
 %>
</HEAD>

Also, the line in bold type defines the query form as the current file. From that point on, the file is referred to as QueryForm. This line allows you to change the name of the file without having to change the name anywhere within the file.