Googletapping search-function

Support Mod Joined: Mar 19, 2003 Posts: 308

Hello,

is it possible to googletap the search-function like this:

http://www.luchtzak.be/gate.html?name=Search&query=xxxxx

becomes

http://www.luchtzak.be/search-xxxxx.html

And how to do so ?

greetings,

Bart

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 1:07 am

It has been done in the GT-NExtGEn already, but I will explain it a bit here.

The most important part is the source code of the file because it contains the URL's we wish to tap, if you grab a URL from the search module like the one below, we will tap it together. This is our URL

Code:

modules.php?name=$module_name&query=&topic=$topic

First, we replace $module_name with Search and put it in the proper header.php quotation marks, that gives us

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Search&query=&topic=$topic'",

From there we substitute the variables with their proper regex expressions, those would happen to be this:

Code:

([a-z]*) <--lower case only
([a-zA-Z]*) <-- Upper and lower case
([0-9]*) <--Numbers only
([a-zA-Z0-9]*) upper, lower, and numbers
Special characters if needed can be put in the end like this, beware that punctuation will need to be followed like a backslash
([a-zA-Z0-9=\;\,\.\?\!=_-]*)

Now that we know what the regex's are for the variables, we replace our variables with those regex's

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Search&query=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)&topic=([0-9]*)'",

The first portion of the header.php is complete, now we must complete the $urlout array, note that these have to match, so if the above statement is the fifth down in your list, the $urlout match must be the fifth down as well. Lets make the match this:

Code:

"search-\\1-\\2.html",

The \\1 indicates the first group which is ([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*) and equal to that of the query.
The \\2 indicates the second group which is ([0-9]*) and equal to that of $topic

From here we must build our .htaccess statement, this is easy as we have already done all the work.

Code:

RewriteRule ^search-([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)-([0-9]*).html modules.php?name=Search&query=$1&topic=$2

The $1 and $2 are the same as the \\1 and \\2 above, they are used as groups, the $1 substitutes the contents of ([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*) and the $2 is for the contents of ([0-9]*). When you click search-blah-1.html it takes that URL and plugs it into the search-([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)-([0-9]*).html portion if it fits (which it does), it then takes those matching values and put them in the longer URL and executes that behind the scenes. Hope some of this made sense, that is how it basically works. Those regex above can be used on most variables, if you go to gt.audioslaved.com you will see the search should be fully tapped, feel free to test the beta 0.2 and see if this is what you are looking for.

-Bill (Audioslaved)

Support Mod Joined: Mar 19, 2003 Posts: 308

Bill,

I did what you suggested and it works fine:

http://www.luchtzak.be/search-american-23.html

But which sign do I have to enter if I want to search for 'american airlines'

[url] www.luchtzak.be/search-american airlines-23.html [/url] gives me 404

And what figure do I need to enter if I want to search for 'american airlines' not only in topic 23 but in every article ?

And how do I need to configure my search-box on the frontpage so the search comes into a nice GT-url ?

thanks allready and greetings,

Bart

Support Mod Joined: Mar 19, 2003 Posts: 308

And www.luchtzak.be/search-american.html gives me a 404 too ...