Search The Internet v1.0 (Major Engines)

Search The Internet Hack - (Copyright 2002+), tHE DSS
V1.0 (10th August 2002)

Additional code (enhanced by tHE DSS) used from Freddie's Quick Stats Hack at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=37193

As with anything of this nature, I will not be held responsible for any damage that may be caused during installation of this hack, or in the future during usage of this hack. Although steps have been taken to ensure a smooth installation, and smooth usage, you install and use this hack entirely at your own risk.

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This hack gives your visitors an excellent quick and easy way of finding information on the Internet, without having to leave your site.

5 search engines are included at the moment (google, yahoo, alta vista, excite & lycos). A search "bar" is present on every page on your forum site, in the footer by default - your visitors simply type in a search, select the engine to search on (from a drop down box), and that's that.

A new window will open up, with the seach results displayed.

It gets even better, because this hack can optionally keep search logs on who is searching what from where, and when. A great help for webmasters interested in their visitors wants and needs.

Webmasters can quickly track down information from the search logs via the vB AdminCP. In-fact, webmasters can control the logs completely, from the AdminCP.

It gets better yet, as this hack is so easy to install.

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I will no doubt be adding features to this hack as and when I get a spare half hour - the "upgrades" will simply entail uploading a replacement file (no vB scripts will need replacing).

Cheers.

[attic]

Hey

Great hack!

I only want to replace the search buttons for imagebuttons to match my buttonset. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

hp

[speednow007]

very nice!

[Floris]

Originally posted by attic
Hey


Great hack!

I only want to replace the search buttons for imagebuttons to match my buttonset. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

hp

Yeah, you can do that since it is just plain html update the submit button to use a src image instead of default. see www.w3.org for howto html 4.

[WoodiE]

I've installed it on 2.2.8 and it works PERFECTLY!

I love it, though one of my members brought up a really good suggestion. Instead of searching major search engines..is there away to search other sites?

For example instead of having google, yahoo, exite and so on listed. I would have like Circuit City, Best Buy, so on and so on. So a member could input say "Kenwood home theater" and select Best Buy...it would then search all of best buy for "Kenwood Home Theater".

Is this possible?

-WoodiE

[tHE DSS]

Originally posted by WoodiE
I've installed it on 2.2.8 and it works PERFECTLY!

I love it, though one of my members brought up a really good suggestion. Instead of searching major search engines..is there away to search other sites?

For example instead of having google, yahoo, exite and so on listed. I would have like Circuit City, Best Buy, so on and so on. So a member could input say "Kenwood home theater" and select Best Buy...it would then search all of best buy for "Kenwood Home Theater".

Is this possible?


-WoodiE

Hiya, WoodiE.

I've not usually got much time lately to support this hack - but I do have a spare 5-10 minutes at the moment - you caught me at a good time.

Is the Best Buy website http://www.bestbuy.com ?

If so, i've been over there and did a search so that I could extract the URL properties for their search routine.

It seem that all you need is this :

http://www.bestbuy.com/search/sr01.asp?SV=

Read my post on this page :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42125&perpage=15&displa y=&pagenumber=2

... it will guide you on adding other search engines - you can use the Best Buy search engine to search their site.

[WoodiE]

tHE DSS,

Man I can not thank you enough... I've modified it to fit my members needs, and they love it!

Thanks again!

-WoodiE

[MuSuL]

For the love of me....I can't get a search engine to work with it. Can anyone give me a hand. I've been at it for hours.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...arch&DB=PubMed

I'm trying to search the pubmed database via my site.

[tHE DSS]

Hello. Thank you for installing.

The URL you will need is this :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...d=search&term=

... the script will append the search query onto the end of that, and it works.

Cheers.

[MuSuL]

Yesterday at 06:39 PM tHE DSS said this in Post #88
Hello. Thank you for installing.

The URL you will need is this :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...d=search&term=

... the script will append the search query onto the end of that, and it works.

Cheers.

Thank you...I'll give it a shot. BTW, is there somewhere I can click to increment the number of installs. I see it in the hacks section but I can't find it in this thead. Does it do it automatically?

[MuSuL]

THANKS!!!! Worked like a charm. I couldn't find the variable name for the text in the box. You did though....thank you so much