Google search in forum search box
 

This litle hack inserte a google search in the forum search box, with the posibility of search in web and in your site.

Edit you NavBar template and search for the following:
Put the google search code in this zone.

THE CODE BELOW CONTAINS A GOOGLE ACCOUNT WHICH AUTHOR WILL BE AWARDED:
IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN GOOGLE ACCOUNT YOU MAY REPLACE THE FOLLOWING LINES WITH YOUR INFO:

Looks pretty cool, I'll give this a go as no-one uses my other google search :)

I don't understand your instructions.

You mention "text in bold" and there is not text in bold.

Do I replace the first block of text you said to search for with the 3rd block you provided?

You said to put the search code in this zone.

</div>
<!-- / header quick search form -->

What does that mean?

seemd nice thing...hope going to install it..

Put the google code provided in the first post between this codes

Search this text is original in navbar template"<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[advanced_search]</a></td>
</tr>
</table>"

-->Here the Google code

</div>
<!-- / header quick search form -->


Now replace the text in bold and GREEN color by your data, for example, your domain, your google adsense cliente number, etc.

excuse my broken English, but i hope that the instructions are clear.


<!-- Search Google by Danny-->
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="google_window">
<table bgcolor="#f7f7f7">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" height="32" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top">

<a href="http://www.google.com/">
<img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" align="middle" border="0" alt="Google"></img></a>

<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="Bmwfaq.com "></input>
<input type="text" name="q" size="9" maxlength="255" value=""></input>
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Ir"></input>
<br>

<div style="padding:3px">
<label><input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" checked="checked">Web</label>
<label ><input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="bmwfaq.com">bmwfaq.com</label>
</div>

<input type="hidden" name="client" value= "pub-0000000000"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#9A2C06;GL:1;DIV:#33FFFF;VLC:D03500;AH :center;BGC:99CCFF;LBGC:CCE5F9;ALC:440066;LC:44006 6;T:336699;GFNT:223472;GIMP:223472;FORID:1;"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="es"></input>
</td></tr></table>
</form>

<!-- Search Google -->

I would advise NOT giving others your google code... if someone puts this somewhere that is against the adsense TOU, you may find yourself banned from the program.

Thanks for the advise, i replace my adsense code by a unexisting one.

OK, I add the code in the place you tell me to and replace the the places with my own info. Now when I load up the main page of my site, I get the following error:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=7) state=2 in /home2/webbhelp/hidingplace-www/vbb350/index.php(487) : eval()'d code on line 1

D'Oh! It was me and my big fat fingers.

I guess the problem WAS the nut behind the wheel!

You know what would be awesome, changing the target to "_self" and having vBulletin do the search -BUT- display the output with vBulletin 3.5x headers and footers.

Does anyone know of an exisiting hack that maybe incorporated to display a non-vb page in this way? I seem to rember something on 2.x but can't find anything that resembles it.

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Does anyone have any suggestions with how to achieve the above? ^^^

Many thanks.

I love how Erwin puts the Google Search box on his forumhome page.

http://www.christianforums.com/

I agree, wish he would share it with us.

Btw, am I the only one who noticed that the code is wrong ?

This :
should actually be this:
other it would count as adsense content instead of adsense search.

So yeah Erwin rocks !

:banana:

what do you mean??..this is the correct sentence...or am i missingsomething?

I think I've added something similar to the search page on my forum see: http://forums.randi.org/search.php

Would that be of use to you?

Oops - forgot that wont be accessible for guests, it looks like the attached screenshot.

Another wonderfull way to add google to search :D

This doesnt seem to work with 3.6.5? Ive done redone it a million times

When I do a search it comes up with the Google results but they are all foreign.


http://www.google.com/custom?domains...D%3A1%3B&hl=es

Could somebody please take a quick peek and tell me what i need to change to get my google results in english/american.

Thanks guys

I would like to do the same, how did you do this?

Long time since I added it - as far as I remember it's really just the code from Goggle that allows you to have your google search results shown with your forum's logo (I think that's called "Google Custom Search") added to vBulletin search page:


In the template "search_forums", find

$header
$navbar


and then add this underneath it

You'll need to use your own url for where my forum's url is used.