Using google/search engines within a search box on your own site...easy?

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I’ve got a form, just one text entry box and a button, much like google.

How do I make it so when a term is entered into the box it’ll then search google (or other sites which I know the search URL)?

The search term for google UK is,

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=

So if my form text field is called ‘searchAlgo’ can I just append it to the URL in a frame and somehow load

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q= & searchAlgo

So if searchAlgo = “really cool stuff” it’ll output this url:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=really cool stuff

?

(I’m not bothered for now about adding %20/+ marks or anything, it should work, albeit badly, without them.

thanks in advance,

(edit: sorry if this is a very basic,lame question! :()

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Havent tried this, but couldnt you create a form and name the textfield ‘q’ and then have the action be set to http://www.google.co.uk/search. Obviously if that doesnt work, use the onClick function of your button and redirect them to the google site with the value in the textfield…Many ways you could do this…

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yes mate, I did that and it works fine :slight_smile:

the only problem is now, I need to make it so I can use one variable and pass it to multiple search engines, of which use different identifiers (like ‘q’ for google). Then the results can be displayed in frames/tabs/iframe, like the popular multiple torrent sites out there…

thanks for your time,

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well you would need to setup the form the second way i mentioned. when they click ‘Search’ you need to do a ‘<your google frame>.src = <google search>?q=<text val>; <your yahoo frame>.src = <yahoo search>?<param>=<text val>;’

hth :beer:

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thanks again mate, I understood your theory but I wasn’t sure what language it was in… :slight_smile:

I copped out and made it in flash as I needed it quickly. The only problem is now i’m calling a frame with javascript and it’s not loading in the right one, or with this code, anything:

searchURL = “javascript:window.frame[‘lowerframe’].location.href="” + txtQry + “"”

which outputs:

frames[‘lowerframe’].window.location=“ssss - Google Search”

but it wont load in my frame named ‘lowerframe’ :frowning:

any idea why?

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does any know how to get this to work on as3?
i got it to work when running the swf alone,
but once i embeded to html, it’s broken…