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.

[tHE DSS]

It should work until vB3 is released.

[heynurse]

tHE DSS,

Awesome hack! I have already added a MEDLine plus search to my hack, but I'd love to have the following site added, and for the life of me, I cant figure out the correct search string, can anyone else help me figure this one out?

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

[tHE DSS]

Hiya.

Quick and dirty, you can use :

http://webseek.merck.com/query.html?...button.y=8&qt=

... all of that is already URL encoded... but it should work in the PHP strings.

ps... right click that link, and take the full URL from the "properties" pop up menu.

[heynurse]

tHE DSS,

you rock, my users love this hack!!!! Thanks a ton for your help with the search string!

[heynurse]

Does anyone know if it is possible to have this search tool bar on NON-vbulletin pages? I'd love to add this search tool bar in the footer of every page of our site. Any ideas? Thanks

Again, this is a great hack!!!!

[Crazy Pete]

This hack is really excellent, and I installed it. The only thing that's odd is the table for the "Search The Internet" bar is slightly wider than the rest of my tables on the page. I'm sure it's just something stupid that I'm overlooking, but can anyone tell me how to get them to match up? Thanks.

[Crazy Pete]

Nevermind, I got it. I Just changed the tablewidth parameter from{contenttablewidth} to 80% and it looks better now.

[Alien]

I take it there wouldn't be a problem if I just wanted to stick this into the already available search template instead of at the footer of every page? I'd really rather not put it on every page, just as an add-on into the search area built into vB.

Thanks.

[tHE DSS]

No, it shouldn't cause a problem.

Just put the :

PHP Code:

eval("\$search_the_internet = \"".gettemplate('search_the_internet')."\";"); 


... that usually goes in the "global.php" script into the script that will be showing the search bar.

There is no point in having the database do extra work on pages that are not using the search bar.

Even though the resource saving is very slight... may aswell do it.

[Alien]

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll give it a try and let you know how I make out!

-Jason