Google-Search

Hi
with this hack you can get your own google-search from your vbulletin. This hack needs some PEAR-Classes and you need a google-account.

Requirements:
- you need the following PEAR-Classes:
- SOAP (available at http://cvs.php.net)
- Net/Dime (available at http://cvs.php.net)
- SOAP_Google (available at http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/?page=google)
- Google-Account (free at http://www.google.com/apis/)

installation notes
Make sure that you have the required pear-classes installed. Infos about PEAR are available at http://pear.php.net
If you receive require/include-errors edit websearch.php and add the path to pear.
Edit websearch.php and enter your google-key
Upload websearch.php to your forums-directory
add the 3 templates
create a link to websearch.php where you want

Have fun

edit: If you don?t want getting the pearclasses from cvs, take a look here

get a blank page after submitting the search? read this

want to integrade the google-search into your regular search enginge? look here

[Hotte]

Unzip the PEAR-Classes and upload them in the following format on your webserver:

/pear
|
+-> SOAP_Google.php
|
+-> /pear/Net
  |
  +-> Dime.php
|
+-> /pear/SOAP
  |
  +-> <files from the SOAP-0.6.2.tgz>

Then enter the absolut path to the pear-dir in the websearch.php

[JJR512]

And I don't need root access to do this? I read somewhere that all this should be above the web root, to prevent people from executing some of the scripts over the Internet.

Let me just make sure I got this straight.

I'm on a shared server. My webroot is: /home/jjr512/public_html (That's where I put the vB root, too.) So I could put all this starting in /home/public/pear, correct?

[Hotte]

Originally posted by JJR512
I'm on a shared server. My webroot is: /home/jjr512/public_html (That's where I put the vB root, too.) So I could put all this starting in /home/public/pear, correct?

Why /home/public/pear? Upload pear to /home/jjr512/public_html/pear or /home/jjr512/pear if you don?t want the classes accessable from the browser.

[JJR512]

Sorry, misspoke... /home/jjr512/pear is what I meant. Other than that, it's all good? I'm about to upload it all, so I guess I'll find out in a moment...

[Hotte]

Don´t forget to enter "/home/jjr512/pear" in websearch.php

[JJR512]

Hey! It works! Woohoo!

Next time you need a nomination for Hack of the Month...let me know!

My only suggestion would be to find a way so that on the initial page, before you do a search, the search box only appears once. I understand you have it twice so that after someone does a search, the search box will appear both above and below the results, but before there are any results, having the exact same thing twice, one above the other, looks a little silly.

[Link14716]

At first, when I saw this, I asked myself how to get the pear things, noow that I know, I will install. Thanks.

[Link14716]

I need to get the SOAP class, but I'd have to download the files 1 by 1. Where can I get a zipped (or tgz) forms of it? I can't find it anywhere.

Nice hack, BTW.

[Hotte]

Originally posted by Link14716
I need to get the SOAP class, but I'd have to download the files 1 by 1. Where can I get a zipped (or tgz) forms of it? I can't find it anywhere.

Nice hack, BTW.

Take a look at the last line of my first post

[Link14716]

I did, but I still couldn't find it

EDIT: I just saw the search box and found it