Replacing vanilla search with Google search

ahmedaladdin · April 2013

Hello,
can someone tell me how i can replace vanilla default search with Google search?

vrijvlinder · April 2013

Instead of replacing why not just add a google search bar on top or below the forum search?
Just make the custom google search bar and paste the code into your theme's default .master.

ahmedaladdin · April 2013

I prefer to have just one search field, as a user I will never search twice in a website. Moreover, vanilla's default search is not useful.

noahqw · April 2013

Yes, there is a plugin called Vanoogle. It will use Google's custom search bar instead.

ahmedaladdin · April 2013

Please tell me where to insert google search code "Code from adsense" inside default.master.php file

<form class="form-search js-search-form" action="http://forum.site.com/search" id="global-nav-search"
style="display:block" name="Search" method="GET">

          `<span class="search-icon js-search-action"> <i class="nav-search"></i> </span>`
          `<input class="search-input" type="text" id="search-query" placeholder="Search Questions and Discussions" name="Search">`



          `<div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-dark typeahead"> </div>`
         `<!--  <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />`
             `<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />`
             `<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" /> -->`
        `</form>`
      `</div>`
        `<?php`

`

vanoogle plugin is not what I am looking for

Srggamer · April 2013

Replace the previous search with your search.

vrijvlinder · April 2013

@ahmedaladdin said:
Please tell me where to insert google search code "Code from adsense" inside default.master.php file

Look for < div id="Panel"> if that is where you want the search bar. And paste the code there. Then find the code for the search

<?php
                    $Form = Gdn::Factory('Form');
                    $Form->InputPrefix = '';
                    echo 
                        $Form->Open(array('action' => Url('/search'), 'method' => 'get')),
                        $Form->TextBox('Search'),
                        $Form->Button('Go', array('Name' => '')),
                        $Form->Close();
                ?>

And either paste the new bar in this section instead of the above, or remove it.

Roben · April 2013

@ahmedaladdin said:
can someone tell me how i can replace vanilla default search with Google search?

following link:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/21676/penetrating-google-into-built-in-search-box

Replacing vanilla search with Google search

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