Here is the process I used to create a custom search results page. You can see the search in operation at
http://www.puritanboard.com
1. In your Adsense Setup page for your Custom Search
- Select Only sites I select
- Type your URL (without http:/)
- Select Use Safe Search (to avoid explicit content)
- Under Open Search Results Page select Open results within my own site
- In the block type http://www.yourforum.com/google.php
- The rest of the settings you can figure out
2. Create a file called google.php to upload to your forum root. Here are my contents
PHP Code:
<?php
// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test');
define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);
// change this depending on your filename
// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();
// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();
// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array('GOOGLE',
);
// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();
// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
// if your page is outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories by uncommenting the next line
// chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('./global.php');
// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################
$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Google Site Search'));
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);
// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####
$pagetitle = 'Google Custom Search';
// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######
$templater = vB_Template::create('GOOGLE');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
?>
3. Go to your AdminCP
- Go to Styles & Templates -> Style Manager
- Within your Style pulldown select Create New Templat
- Name the Template GOOGLE
- Paste the following code within:
PHP Code:
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title>
{vb:raw headinclude}
</head>
<body>
{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw navbar}
<div id="pagetitle">
<h1>{vb:raw pagetitle}</h1>
</div>
<h2 class="blockhead">Google Custom Search</h2>
<div class="blockbody">
<div class="blockrow">
<div id="cse-search-results"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results";
var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box";
var googleSearchFrameWidth = 800;
var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com";
var googleSearchPath = "/cse";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js"></script>
</div>
</div>
{vb:raw footer}
</body>
</html>
4. Make the modifications to navbar as described herein. Here is my entire form within Navbar so you can see how mine was implemented (Google Adsense code modified):
PHP Code:
<form action="http://www.puritanboard.com/google.php" id="cse-search-box">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxx-xxxx" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
<span class="textboxcontainer"><span><input type="text" value="" name="q" class="textbox" /></span></span>
<span class="buttoncontainer"><span><input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="sa" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" /> </span></span>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script>
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