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> 


[Gn_Snake]

Nothing? Any idea for blank page in Google Search?

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

Nothing? Any idea for blank page in Google Search?

You implemented it incorrectly. I've provided step-by-step instructions in post #36.

[fxwoody]

Tks guys , i will give it a try!

Tho if i got all this right, after doing all the mods, it should take around 10 min for crawler to get on and board should be fully visible ! Right?

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by fxwoody

Tks guys , i will give it a try!

Tho if i got all this right, after doing all the mods, it should take around 10 min for crawler to get on and board should be fully visible ! Right?

This mod doesn't cause Google to crawl your site but relies on the fact that it probably already has.

[fxwoody]

tks for the info! after playing around this for 2hr +++ i found out the my template was "google" instead of "GOOGLE" lolll big difference to get it to work! lolll

Tks guys! Will see how it turns out for the $$$ now with this lolll

Just one last thing, didn't search for it yet but, when i make a search, i automatically log off?? Any suggestions

Tks

[David Karol]

Great mod!

Is it possible to change the height of the google search box, to be more like the original vB box? See soundforums.net

[prandah]

how to get
partner public google id ?

[SemperFideles]

Go to Google Adsense.

[prandah]

I don't have google adsense
i'm submit google adsense allways rejected

anyone can help me for google adsense

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by prandah

I don't have google adsense
i'm submit google adsense allways rejected

anyone can help me for google adsense

I just checked and it will work without the partner-pub if you remove this line from your navbar template:

PHP Code:

    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxx-xxxx" /> 


You obviously won't get any revenue from Adsense for Search but it will help reduce server load.