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Welcome to the Wi-Fi Search Box Howto, Help and FAQ.
Almost all of the procedure is actually straight to the point and quite easy, however, some people may be confused as to how to install it.
Download or copy and paste the Search Code here, the code to insert in HTML or CGI Scripts
Yes, make it look anyway you like, as long as the logos and links remain there. You may want to make it a 468x60 for example or re-design it the way you like. We do stress that any html / code which comes with it to be left intact. That HTML or code is used to import images and search results from our site/s. The small banners / logos are generally either links to our sites, tiny banners / logos or sponsors small banners to promote our sponsors. In most cases, we do not gain financially from displaying them, but as a cross promotion between us and our reputable technology partners (Conferences, event providers, wi-fi partners..). Leaving them there, will insure our partners keep helping our non-profit cause.
If you do that, we'll have no control as to which banners / logos to appear on the box, we'll be changing them from time to time. In addition, they serve sometimes to advertise our sponsors (to pay for the up-keep of the directory). In short, you should leave them as they are (you can make them smaller, taller or larger though)!
Because we use a central stats banner system for all the Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) network of sites, which goes through the above URL (our parent site) to help us record how many clicks and impression for those banners on the box, nothing else. While we are at it, privacy of visitors and members is 100% guaranteed, no other information is gathered apart from a harmless visitor or members cookie, obviously without it, the site would not know if members are logged in or not for example.. Read our Privacy & Terms pages to be assured. Yes, any site which does not meet our onsite terms of use. Generally, no sites of adult or illegal content are allowed to install the search box (if you are not sure, get in touch instead of installing it and getting into hot water with your ISP / Host..). We do our best to insure all are, in minor cases, the odd one or two may have expired or no longer online without our knowledge. Any help in reporting any expired or invalid hotspots will be greatly appreciated. Most of our hotspots come as lists from major wi-fi providers, they themselves usually send them weekly on average. Obviously, the home page or the most visited page on your site is the ideal location. If you have a site that deals with a general topic and have a section for wireless, you get more use out of it than in the home page, on the other hand, that does not mean people who did not visit the wireless section may not need to use it. Besides HTML, you can include the code in your Perl Scripts or PHP etc, you can also include it using any other way possible, no rocket science knowledge is required to implement the code.
Yes, but remember, some pop-up stoppers do get confused and think the page is a pop-up (can't blame them, a new window does actually pop up even though it only does it on your command), hence stop it from opening. We'll leave that up to you, most intelligent pop-up stopper software packages have no problem.
If you uploaded the file as a stand alone, remember to give it 755 permission and this statement should be there: Remember that in CGI scripts,
Perl and PHP for example, you need to escape the (")
like this (\") in text or HTML, the code starts in PHP with: echo "your escaped text and html here"; For example: //this is my comment <<-- a short commented paragraph /* this is my comment when it's many lines long...*/ <<--long commented paragraph echo "Hello World"; <--PHP code not commented! In Perl, you use # #this is my comment, a short one #this is my comment print "Hello World"; <<--Perl code not commented! Note: Perl code can be written without escaping, like this: print "<<CODE"; <<--beginning of code text and HTML here does not have to be escaped, example: <table border="100%".... CODE <<--end of code Remember don't include the <<--, it's only here for description purposes. Another thing, Perl and PHP files or scripts have to know what program they are using. Perl scripts need to have a statement right on the beginning of the page: #!/usr/bin/perl Your server may have it different, best thing is to extract / copy and paste one from a Perl script that is working on your site! this statement: print "content-type: text/html\n\n"; under it or somewhere where applicable is usually needed. For PHP scripts, this: (<?php) need to be at the beginning and this (?>) at the end of the page, or before and after PHP code (no brackets).
By all means Yes! We'd rather you did not in an IFrame, if you do use a Frames, make sure to let visitors have the option of removing the frames. This is a similar question to the above, Yes if the search results as well as the whole page open untouched, but not if only the results themselves. It would not be fair if you get the results without the banner or two that are usually on top (they pay for the up-keep of the directory). We are working on two Windows and Mac versions, one for handhelds and one for desktops, it may be few weeks or even months before we release them though. If you'd like to contribute to programming them (Java or C), we'd like to hear from you, email: webmaster@wi-fihotspotsdirectory.com. You can still use this box on your desktop or notebook, just paste it in a HTML file and open it and search (you need to be connected to the Internet to bring results though!), you can also send the file to desktop as a short cut icon
If you have any other question, you can get in touch with our Webmaster: webmaster@wi-fihotspotsdirectory.com Go back Download the Search Code here
Enjoy!
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