iframe search bar

[scottdallas]

This is how you put an iframe search bar anywhere you want on your site:



From the .zip file:

1) Copy search.php to / (root directory of cutenews.ru install)

2) Copy show_searchresults.php to / (root directory of cutenews.ru install)

3) Copy search.css to /skins (root directory of cutenews.ru install)



Changing search fonts using search.css:

1) Open search.css and change the font properties.

- - 'fontyfont' is formatting for the words 'Search for:'

- - 'fontyfont-search' is formatting for text in search box.

- - 'fontyfont-dropdown' is formatting for text in both drop downs.



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Note: You'll also see this at the top of skins/search.css



body {

background-color: transparent;

}



This sets the background of the iframe transparent so no matter where you place this search bar iframe on your site it will match the background behind it.. like the background of a table or cell that you've previously chosen in your layout. This makes it easier to design with. I've tested it with IE and FF.

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How to display search bar in your site:

1) Use the code below on your site wherever you'd like to show the search bar.



<iframe name="searchbar" src="http://www.YOURSITE.com/PATH-TO-CUTENEWS/search.php" allowtransparency="yes" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1" width="100%" scrolling="no" border="0" frameborder="0" height="100">You need a browser upgrade. Get firefox.</iframe>



The things you'll need adjust in the iframe code to make it work for your site are:



1) src="http://www.YOURSITE.com/PATH-TO-CUTENEWS/search.php"

2) height="100"



How to include search results in your site:

To see the search results on your page, include them into a file called 'search.php' in the root directory of your website. This is exactly like including show_news.php on your index.php file. Because of this I usually copy index.php as search.php (creating http://www.yoursite.com/search.php) and change the include code to this:



<?php

$number = "10";

include("PATH-TO-CUTENEWS/show_searchresults.php");

?>



Some extra info:

You can change the page that cutenews.ru opens search results on by changing this line in search.php:



<form method="get" action="../search.php" target="_top">



Change action="../to-the-name-of-the-file-youd-like-to-use.php"



target="_top" tells it to open in a new window. Without this it will open inside of your tiny search iframe.



You can change which template your search results use in cutenews.ru by modifying this line in search.php:



$template = 'Search';

[astrostart]

Wow, this looks cool.



Do you have a preview so I can check it out before installing it?

[yesitsfree]

Excellent Thanks for this

I now have it working on my site

Although I had to remove some code out of the show_searchresults.php page due to security errors on my hosting server the part I removed was

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//Search history start

$file_path = "../data/search-history.txt";



if(!file_exists($file_path)) touch($file_path);



$search_file = file($file_path);



if($search){



function plus_one(){

global $search_file, $search, $file_path;



$file = fopen($file_path, w);



   foreach($search_file as $line){

      $line_arr = explode("|", $line);

      if(trim($line_arr[1]) == trim($search)){

         $count = $line_arr[0]+1;

         fwrite($file, $count."|".$line_arr[1]);

      }

      else fwrite($file, $line);

   }

fclose($file);

}



foreach($search_file as $line){

   $line_arr = explode("|", $line);

   $all_words[] = trim($line_arr[1]);

}





   if(in_array($search, $all_words)){

      plus_one();

   }

   else {

      $add_file = fopen($file_path, a);

      fwrite($add_file, "1|".$search."\n");

      fclose($add_file);

   }





}

//Search history end



now works fine

see at www.security4free.co.uk new site being developed so not much on it.

[scottdallas]

Sure, I'm using this search bar on:



http://www.scottdizzle.com

http://www.dream-library.com

http://www.tastypolls.com

http://www.doodledrawings.com

http://www.whatsmostpopular.com



If you see a search bar, you see it working.

[yesitsfree]

maybe just the hosting i am using they are a bit restricted with what you can use

[scottdallas]

Ah and now http://www.security4free.co.uk/ has a working example I'm glad you got it working. looks and works great. fast and easy



You could change the text here:

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Your Search Results Are Below

to

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Your Search Results for '<b><?php echo("$search"); ?></b>' Are Below

If you want to display the keyword they searched

[yesitsfree]

Yep THANKS for your help Scott

[yesitsfree]

Just added "Your search results for "" are below



Great thanks again

[scottdallas]

yeah! that looks sweet!

[yesitsfree]

Yep works great.

Going to get www.security4free.co.uk loaded with software and then Im going to convert yesitsfree to cutenews.ru will take some doing though I have about 600 listings on static pages also worried about losing my google ranking, it is about 4/10 at the moment but all the pages are htm will I loose rankings when I convert to php.

[astrostart]

I have installed it on my website: www.astrostart.nl (upper right corner)



If I search for one word, it works fantastic, but when I search for two words, it can't find anything.



For instance:



zwart - enough results

zwart gat - no results



That's weird, because there are a lot of news with zwart gat (black hole) on my site.



Do you have a solution?

[astrostart]

And another question (yeah, I'm annoying)



This is my template for next and previous news:

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<p align=center>[prev-link]<< Nieuwere berichten[/prev-link] | [next-link]Oudere berichten >>[/next-link]</p>

However, when I'm on the search page and click 'oudere berichten' (older messages) it takes me to the following link:



http://www.astrostart.nl/search.php?skip=10



And I can't see any newsmessages. Do you have a solution for this? [/code]

[scottdallas]

Does this fix it? When I had bad search result pagination links FI-DD helped me here



http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/viewto ... pagination



and I uploaded the zip of the file with the modifications he helped me make in case anyone else had similar issues. As far as the mulitple word search.. I have trouble with that too i think that's not the iframe-search having trouble but the search code itself.

[FI-DD]

You have to install the boolean search if you want to search for more than one word.

[astrostart]

Well, I did. But now I've overwritten it with this search.php file. So now it is not possible anymore