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Description
The main googleajaxsearch module allows you to add inline searches over a number
of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, and News Search).
This module includes a macro generator which allows you to interactively
create a googleajaxsearch inline tag. This feature gives you ability to create multiple inline google searchers.
We have included hook_filter(), which allows you to copy and paste inline tag
created with the macro generator and insert it into any node.
Installation
1) copy the googleajaxsearch directory into the modules directory
2) Get a Google Ajax Search API Key at http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html
3) enable the 'googleajaxsearch' module in drupal
4) edit admin/settings/googleajaxsearch to include the key you received from google and
change any other default setting.
5) configure an 'input format' so that the googleajaxsearch filter is activated. If
this will be on a 'html filtered' format, ensure that the weighting is
such that the HTML filter comes before the googleajaxsearch filter.
Instructions
Macro
A googleajaxsearch macro can be created on the googleajaxsearch/macro page and the text can then be
copied and pasted into any node where the googleajaxsearch filter is enabled.
Default settings will be the initial settings and will be used for any
parameter not inserted into the macro.
Current available macro flags
target={self,blank,parent,top}
state={open,closed,partial}
mode={linear,tabbed}
searcher={web,video,news,blog,local}
initialsearch={some initial search string}
resultid={block element id name where the results should be placed}
place={initial local search place ex. "New York,NY"}
cseWeb={google cse id or comma separated domain names ex.:amazon.com,aol.com etc.}
cseNews={ex.: CNN}
cseBlog={blog sites ex.:blogspot.com}
bsorder={date|relevance}
nsorder={date|relevance}Macro Example
[googleajaxsearch|target=blank|state=closed|mode=linear|
searcher=web|searcher=blog|searcher=video|searcher=local|
initialsearch=NYC|resultid=somedivid|place=New York,NY]View above example
Module functionality
- googleajaxsearch block in the block section
- block title enable/disable
- custom block title
- available google inline searchers:
- web search
- blog search
- news search
- video search
- local search
- initial search phrase
- initial place for local search
- google control modes:
- tabbed
- linear
- google searchers default state
- open
- closed
- partial
- link target:
- blank
- self
- top
- parent
- enable search from root [search form in a different place than result]
- googleajaxsearch inline tag filter
- googleajaxsearch inline tag creator
- Google Custom Search Engine integration
- setSiterestriction for news searcher
- setSiterestriction for blog searcher
- set blog searcher results order
- set news searcher results order
User
Any user that has permission for "view googleajaxsearch" will then be able to see a inline searcher and user google inline search.
Demo
For a few pages that show some of the items mentioned above see:
http://www.6na9.info/googleajaxsearch/macro
http://www.6na9.info/gasdemo
To fix
- when using googleajax search in sidebar video links and blogs links are too long which causes sidebar width change
TODO
- create php functions to parse array and macro directly in theme file
- copy functionality has to be implemented so users can copy search results into the nodes directly
- search result nodes [different node type for storing users search results]
- macro creator improvments
- Create an API that will allow the use of the macro creation tool in any module
- Clean up comments and make them nice
Credits
Written by:
Meant4.pl development team:
Maciej Perlinski, Adam Ludwinski, Krzysztof Golinski
http://www.meant4.pl