Thread: Google custom search

Google custom search

Hi everyone,

Been trying to implement google search engine since Gaby first introduced this great theme, however with no luck. Now when David has come up with some great new features, I am more than determined to get this gsearch on my site.

So, was wondering if anyone has come up with a smart solution on how to do this. There is actually a plugin, but still I lack some programming knowledge to put this search box smoothly. If anyone can give just some rough guidelines on implementing this google custom search, would appreciate a lot.

Here is this plugin: http://aleembawany.com/projects/wordpre ... ch-plugin/

Have a nice Eastern everyone!

Re: Google custom search

yah me too ... i would rather have Gsearch replace with current search ..

Re: Google custom search

You should be able to just signup for an account with Google, and then create the custom search code and just replace the search.php code with the code from Google.

Re: Google custom search

can guide which code to replace ? noob here
thanks

Re: Google custom search

You would create the custom search code from Googles custom search service, thats easy.

Then after checking search.php it appears that doesnt contain the search form.

It looks like the search form is located in header.php. So you would want to replace this code in header.php

<input type="text" name="s" id="s" class="input" onclick="this.value=''" value="<?php _e('Search Classifieds...'); ?>" onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php _e('Search Classifieds...'); ?>') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = '<?php _e('Search Classifieds...'); ?>';}" />
<input type="submit" class="go" value="Go!" />

With the code from google. You need to make sure you properly close the form tags and place in the proper div, and I am sure you will have to do some styling to make it look right.

I actually am not sure why you would want to do this, the google custom search results are not good for this type of theme. If anything talk David into creating a zip code search, which would allow posters to add there zip and searchs to search by zip radius.

Re: Google custom search

I'd love a zip code search... or even better a 'search near me' option.