search at webmasterworld?

search funciton in forum?

[Princessjo]

I search for webmasterworld not working? I'm trying to search on "mask domain" and my world is spinning?

[Nick_W]

Tips for Searching WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

Much more reliable ;)

Nick

[tosspot17]

Princessjo - try searching through Google.

[google.com...]

<added>hmmmf. i'm just too slow for this forum;)</added>

[Imaster]

Hi Princessjo,

I generally search through Google. I have added a custom code on top for Google Search which searches for pages in webmasterworld.

Go to [webmasterworld.com...]

Add the following lines to "Custom Code Insert Top?"

<center><form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="domains" value="webmasterworld.com"><input TYPE="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value><input type="submit" name="btnG" value="Google"><input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="webmasterworld.com" checked>webmasterworld.com <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value>www</form></center>

[Princessjo]

wow Imaster, that's really cool, I'll be using this from now on, cheers!

[Brett_Tabke]

becareful with that code - copy it exactly as it is displayed. I would try it on another page first to make sure it works for you. If you good - you can really glitch WebmasterWorld to the point you can't use it.

[eWhisper]

Nice job Imaster, you just made my mornings much easier. Thanks.

[bill]

um....that code isn't too original Imaster, now is it? [webmasterworld.com]...

[TheDave]

No rights reserved

You waved your rights ;)

j/k wd bill :)

[bill]

You waved your rights

That was for my AllTheWeb and GigaBlast versions...I retain full rights to the Google version ;)

[Imaster]

All credit to you, Bill ;) I was simply helping them as I use the method as well. :)

[EBear]

Nice code Bill - just caused me to make a home page with something similar for ATW, MSN and Yahoo! as well.

On the other hand, if you've got the toolbar, why not just go the WebmasterWorld, type your query in the toolbar and click Search Site?

[trillianjedi]

I use Bill's original WW Googling tool too.

I wonder if someone could help me out and redo it so that as well as having my google search in the centre at the top, I could also have a shortcut to Foo?

I'm not a coder, so I'm a bit lost here as to where I put it all in.

Thanks,

TJ

[Chndru]

a shortcut to Foo

That would be awesome :)

[digitalghost]

>>a shortcut to Foo

Slap an iframe in your custom code section and you create as many shortcuts as you like... ;)

[Sinner_G]

TJ, just insert the following code between <center> and <form> in bill's code:

<b><a href="/forum9/">Foo</a></b>

Unfortunately, the 500 chars limit is too low to have Community Center and other forums there too. :(

[Chndru]

Thanks, Sinner_G. It's cool.

[Sinner_G]

Just thinking out loud, but would it be possible/allowed to just call a server side include from the custom code insert? That file would then be on a server of mine, so I could have as many chars as I want, and the inserted code would be less than 500 chars?

Do I make sense?

[trillianjedi]

That's perfect - thank you Sinner_G!

TJ

[EBear]

Sinner_G

AFAIK SSI does not allow you to include a file that lies on another server. You could call an external javascript file though, with the same results.

[Sinner_G]

@EBear: Yes, makes sense, probably why it's called server side. But the JS is a good idea.

[Sinner_G]

Okay, here it is.

This code belongs into the custom code insert:

<script src="http://www.yoursite.ch/js/javascript.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>

And then on your site (don't forget to change that in the code above) you need a file called javascript.js (in a folder called js), which contains the following code:

document.write("<center><a href=\"/forum9/\"><b>Foo</b></a> - <a href=\"/forum19/\"><b>WebmasterWorld Community Center</b></a><form method=\"GET\" action=\"http://www.google.com/search\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"domains\" value=\"webmasterworld.com\"> <input TYPE=\"text\" name=\"q\" size=\"25\" maxlength=\"255\" value> <input type=\"submit\" name=\"btnG\" value=\"Google\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"sitesearch\" value=\"webmasterworld.com\" checked> webmasterworld.com<input type=\"radio\" name=\"sitesearch\" value>www</form></center>");

Tested on Opera 7.22 and IE 6.0 on Win2K. Of course you can add all forums (or SEs) you need.

Code for the Google search box copyright by bill :).

[trillianjedi]

@Sinner_G : Oh yeah baby!

Love it.

TJ

[EBear]

Neat Sinner_G.

For your next task, here [notasinner.com]'s an AllTheWeb version I made, Use the code if you want. It does a couple of extra things: a dropdown query field for your regular search phrases and a search by forum.

Unfortunately ATW only has 45K of WebmasterWorld pages, as opposed to Google's 134K. Can anyone provide a similar forum search for Google? You need to combine allinurl with a query, but I can't find a way to do that. Googleguy?

Hey Sinner_G, I just realised the appropriateness of the domain I dumped that on :)

[Sinner_G]

Just to let you know that I'm working on a Google solution, but facing the same problem as you EBear, forum search seems difficult to make.

Come on, you can't really think I'll believe you didn't do the domain thing on purpose ;).

[Sinner_G]

Ok, here's the code for the ATW search (haven't given up the forum search for Google, but it's tough), including forum search. I dropped the frequent searches dropdown. All Kudos to EBear, though. And don't forget, all of this belongs on 1 line.

document.write("<center><a href=\"/forum9/\"><b>Foo</b></a> - <a href=\"/forum19/\"><b>WebmasterWorld Community Center</b></a><form action=\"http://www.alltheweb.com/search\" method=\"get\" name=\"atw\"><img src=\"http://www.alltheweb.com/g/atwlogo_small.gif\" width=\"94\" height=\"16\" alt=\"AlltheWeb :: find it all\" /><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"advanced\" value=\"1\" /><input name=\"cat\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"web\" /> <input name=\"charset\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"utf-8\" /><input name=\"q\" size=\"30\" />&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<input type=\"radio\" name=\"dincl\" value=\"webmasterworld.com\" checked>WebmasterWorld&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<input type=\"radio\" name=\"dincl\" value=\"\"> www&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"wf[n]\" value=\"3\"><input name=\"wf[0][r]\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"+\" /><select name=\"wf[0][q]\"><option value=\"\">Choose a forum . . .<option value=\"\"><option value=\"\">The Search Engine World<option value=\"\">====================================<option value=\"forum3\">Google News <option value=\"forum80\"> Google Toolbar <option value=\"forum86\"> Google IPO Watch<option value=\"forum4\">Alltheweb.com <option value=\"forum2\">AskJeeves - Teoma <option value=\"forum33\"> Overture Pay Per Click <option value=\"forum16\"> Alternative Search Engines <option value=\"forum85\"> Pay Per Click Engines <option value=\"forum1\">Paid Inclusion Engines and Topics <option value=\"forum35\">Yahoo <option value=\"forum17\">Directories <option value=\"forum18\">European Search Engines <option value=\"forum7\">UK & Ireland Search Engines <option value=\"forum32\">Asia and Pacific Region <option value=\"forum93\">robots.txt <option value=\"\"><option value=\"\">The Webmaster World<option value=\"\">====================================<option value=\"forum21\">HTML and Browsers <option value=\"forum46\">WYSIWYG and Text Code Editors <option value=\"forum83\">CSS <option value=\"forum36\">Site Graphics and Multimedia Design <option value=\"forum10\">Webmaster General <option value=\"forum22\">Ecommerce <option value=\"forum44\">Content, Writing and Copyright <option value=\"forum48\">New To Web Development <option value=\"forum25\">Domain Names <option value=\"forum39\">Tracking and Logging <option value=\"forum40\">Linux, Unix, and *nix like Operating Systems <option value=\"forum45\">PDA, Mobile and Wireless Computing <option value=\"forum31\">Professional Webmaster Business Issues <option value=\"forum49\">The Macintosh Webmaster <option value=\"forum47\">Microsoft Related - .NET and ASP <option value=\"forum91\">Javascript <option value=\"forum13\">Perl Server Side CGI Scripting <option value=\"forum88\">PHP Server Side Scripting <option value=\"forum23\">Website Technology Issues <option value=\"forum92\">Apache Web Server <option value=\"\"><option value=\"\">The Marketing World<option value=\"\">====================================<option value=\"forum5\">Search Engine Promotion <option value=\"forum89\">Google AdSense <option value=\"forum20\">Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs <option value=\"forum81\">Google Adwords <option value=\"forum8\">Keyword Discussion <option value=\"forum34\">SEM Research Topics <option value=\"forum24\">Cloaking <option value=\"forum11\">Search Engine Spider Identification <option value=\"forum12\">Link Development <option value=\"forum27\">Search Engine Submission <option value=\"\"><option value=\"\">Local<option value=\"\">====================================<option value=\"forum19\">WebmasterWorld Community Center <option value=\"forum29\">Commercial Exchange <option value=\"forum9\">Foo </select><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"wf[0][w]\" value=\"url.all:\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\" /></form></center>");

[Sinner_G]

Ok, the WebmasterWorld Forum search with Google is there. As it is getting to be lots of code, I have zipped the javascript.js. You can download them here (hope it's ok to post the URL, there is nothing else on that site anyways):

Search with Google, no forum search:
http*//www.dracul.ch/javascript_google_noforum.zip

Search with Google, with forum search:
http*//www.dracul.ch/javascript_google_forum.zip

Search with ATW, with forum search:
http*//www.dracul.ch/javascript_atw_forum.zip

Unzip the chosen version, rename the file to javascript.js and load it on your server. That's it.

[bill]

Sinner_G you're making my <500 char version look bad ;)

[Sinner_G]

Hey bill, without your <500 code (and EBear's forum search idea), my version wouldn't exist at all. :)