Integration with vBulletin - Replace search with Google Custom Search

This mod assumes you have an adsense account and are using Google Custom Search.

You want to make sure your results page is named something other than the vb default search.php, this leaves the vb option open to those who click "advanced search"

Open your template navbar


find

PHP Code:

<form action="search.php?do=process" method="post" id="navbar_search"> 


replace with the form line of the google supplied code
example:

PHP Code:

<form action="http://www.ahfb2000.com/google.php" id="cse-search-box"> 


find

PHP Code:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionurl}" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" /> 


replace with the first 3 hidden input types in your google code
example:

PHP Code:

    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
    <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /> 


find

PHP Code:

<input type="text" value="" name="query" class="textbox" /> 


replace with

PHP Code:

<input type="text" value="" name="q" class="textbox" /> 


find

PHP Code:

<input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" /> 


replace with

PHP Code:

<input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="sa" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" /> 


find

PHP Code:

</form> 


add this after

PHP Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&amp;lang=en"></script> 


[prandah]

okey thanks semper
it's work

mark installed

[ymcus]

In style manager and in my required template i did'nt find the the template navbar
please help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[SemperFideles]

It's one of the templates grouped under Navigation Breadcrumb or something like that.

[ijob]

Is there any uptodate code to implement this on the latest vbulletin? I cant seem to get the original code in the op to work.

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by ijob

Is there any uptodate code to implement this on the latest vbulletin? I cant seem to get the original code in the op to work.

There's nothing to update for the most recent vBulletin version. It works fine.

[DNN]

can't one just install the general adsense for search code directly as is from their adsense account?

[deverill2010]

I can't get this to work on my site.

I am trying to make the template changes but the code I have in my templates is slightly different to what is listed here.

When I save I get this error -

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:
Invalid Tag Nesting
This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

And the search box dispaears?

[deverill2010]

Anyone?

[Breakpoint]

I would suggest you copy everything that is posted on Page 3

[deverill2010]

Originally Posted by Breakpoint

I would suggest you copy everything that is posted on Page 3

That is really helpful thank you!

I now have it working

The only thing is how do I remove the advert box?

I only see 3 options in my adsense which are -

Top and right
Top and bottom
Right

Theres no option to completely remove it. I only want the search results to show?

thanks