Search Function

[Bavilo]

Hello,

I was thinking about adding a search field on my site. A field where i just enter some text, click search, and then a new page pops up with the google results of that query. What i need to know is how to append the following: site:http://mysite.com so it actually calls for "blah blah site:http://mysite.com" Can i do this using php?

Thanks
Mike

[phpfreak101]

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Hello,

I was thinking about adding a search field on my site. A field where i just enter some text, click search, and then a new page pops up with the google results of that query. What i need to know is how to append the following: site:http://mysite.com so it actually calls for "blah blah site:http://mysite.com" Can i do this using php?

Thanks
Mike
[/quote]


Ya gotta do some URL hacking

Instead of opening google.com, open up [a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=my+search+term+site%3Amysite.com\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mysea...te%3Amysite.com[/a]

where

[code]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=
[/code]
Is part of google's parameters and
[code]
my+search+term
[/code]
Is your search term
[code]
+site%3Amysite.com
[/code]
Specifies to search your domain at mysite.com

you can then use
[code]
header("Location: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=my+search+term+site%3Amysite.com");
[/code]
to redirect the browser to your home rolled URL.

[scikidus]

Hi, sorry for the HUGE bump, but I'm having the same trouble. Call me a complete n00b, but I have no idea how to get this to work. I'm using Dreamweaver, and I'm trying to create a search function based on the same idea. Could someone please lay out exactly what I need to do? I'm clueless. Thanks!