Originally Posted by Throtex

Hakaslak (and others):

Searching on your site causes a vBulletin error that reads, in relevant part:


I think you may have used a search form integration hack from this site that is faulty. If you see this message, it should inform you that for some reason the data is being passed to vBulletin rather than to Google.

The typical culprit appears to be placing the Google search form code inside of the vBulletin search form code.

Hakaslak - in your page source, I see that you have a <form> tag to open the vBulletin search, then the <form> tag to open the Google search, then a </form> tag to end the Google search, followed by a </form> tag to close the vBulletin search.

These should NOT overlap, and I suspect that anyone experiencing this error is doing the same thing. Move the </form> tag for vBulletin up to before the Google search form, or move the Google search form down outside the </form> tag for the vBulletin form. When you're clicking the "Google Search" button, it is actually sending data to the vBulletin search, rather than my php file.

Hope this helps, but I do not intend to support the search box itself. :)

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

Is it possible to make a seperate search page and use the addon code there ?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Throtex

A separate page to put the search box in, or to put the results page in?

This is a separate page for the search results -- though if you don't want it integrated you can just follow Google's instructions.

As for the search box ... you can put that anywhere you want! Best is to make a template and call it using misc.php if you want it on its own page. (i.e., this function: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=124749 )

Originally Posted by Throtex

Not really any point I suppose ... though the ads that show up in the search results count for your AdSense payments. Plus you get one more bite at the apple to keep people on your site ... otherwise you'd send them directly to Google as soon as they run the search.

I just think it looks nice. :) I think this is a fairly recent offering by Google, so maybe more will be possible eventually. And of course, people are free to extend this in other ways.

Originally Posted by Bulent Tekcan

Please specify some words or valid user names to search on. There were no matches for those that you specified.

Everytime I received this message.Any idea ?