How do I add a Drugstore.com search to my Web site?

Forever's a long time, but let's have a stab at reverse engineering the Drugstore.com search that's on its site and trimming it down to its essentials.

The first step is to do a "View Source" (usually View --> View Source). In that huge tangle of code we find:

Ugh, ugh. As a first step, I'll go ahead and add returns so we can see what's what:

It sure looks to me like we can dump some of these variables, and we can certainly lose the formatting table tags "td" and convert the img submit into a regular submit button, for simplicity sake. Also note the form value action: you need to normalize that to point to the Drugstore.com server, so I'll do that too.

A little bit of experimentation reveals that all of the hidden variables are unnecessary (I simply added an 'x' before the word input on each of them in my test file, so they looked like <xinput type=... and found that the form still worked just dandy from my austere test page) so here's my minimalist Drugstore.com search box:

Now you can go back and add fancy formatting and styles if you'd like, but the raw search should work just fine exactly as shown above. Here, test it:

Search for, oh, I dunno, "vitamins" or "combs" to see how it works out.