Some users might have noticed that the search page on this website has been integrated with Google  Adsense search.

In this article I want to explain how you can hack Joomla! com_search in order to have a similar result in your website.

You will need to create 2 custom files. If you don't have a directory to store custom files, create one. Personally I use a directory called custom located in the joomla site root.

 Create 2 files and name them g_form.php and g_results.php. The files have to begin with

<?php
?>

Now, you go to your Google Adsense account and setup Adsense for Search. Choose all the options the way you like (color palette, urls, etc.) but just be sure that in More options - Opening of search results page you set the option Open results within my own site.

Enter the address of your website and the width of the result area.

Of course, you can refine the width later.

When you're done, click on continue and you'll be presented with 2 boxes of code: The first is the search box code, the second is the search results code.

Copy the code in the first box and paste it into both the g_form.php file and the g_results.php file after the php tags. Then copy the code from the second box and paste it into the g_results.php file  below the code you've pasted before.

Last update: 21-10-2007 10:50

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