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]

is your webserver behind some kind of firewall that makes trouble?

[Sparkz]

It is behind a firewall, but I don't think traffic originating from the inside is restricted...

[Hotte]

or try these pear-classes. they are the same that i´m using. perhaps we have diffrent versions or something like that.

[Sparkz]

Just spoke with the sysadmin there. Shouldn't be any restrictions on outgoing traffic at all.

[Sparkz]

Trying your pear stuff now... I downloaded mine fresh from CVS 30 minutes or so ago

[Hotte]

perhaps this helps. which php-version are you using? as modul or cgi? linux or windows?

[Sparkz]

No luck..
PHP-4.2.2 as DSO, apache-1.3.26 on a RH7.1
PHP and apache (and most everything else too, for that matter) compiled from scratch by me.

[Hotte]

hmmm
i?ve the same config. strange.
don?t know why it doesn?t work on your forum.
but... hmmm... last chance: perhaps there is an old pear-version in the includepath from the php.ini.
at line 10 in websearch.php change

$ipath.=":$pearpath";

to

$ipath=".:$pearpath";

and make sure that you have entered the path to your uploaded pearclasses at line 4 ($pearpath)

[Sparkz]

No luck... Weird...
I have tried juggling with the include_path too... Search the system for pear-related stuff too...
Only the standard stuff that comes with the PHP-install

[JJR512]

I was getting a blank page, too, before I knew how to setup the pear stuff and the other stuff. Once Hotte explained it to me, I didn't have the problem anymore. Are you sure you have it setup exactly as he described above?