Is it possible to pass a search variable into the Google Custom Search Engine that I have embedded on my website? I can get the search engine to work, but I can't pass it a term via POST (it's coming from a search button on other pages of the website)
I tried to hack the code I found here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=search#hello_world
And this is what I have so far... ($q is the term I am passing to it)
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('search', '1', {language : 'en'});
function OnLoad()
{
var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('***my key****');
customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET);
customSearchControl.draw('cse');
searchControl.execute("$q");
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);
</script>
Thanks
In case someone is looking for a bit more straight forward / simple solution. All you have to do is to pass search keywords into GET parameter named q (from your custom form into page where your GCS is), GCS will automatically use that search phrase.
Source: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/using_rest
Sorry, I know it's a crappy answer, but you've actually got it right apart from referencing the wrong variable name. Oh, also, as an aside, I would also hope you're doing some kind of sanitisation on $q, in case someone posted something like this to your form: term"); alert("aha!
should be:
Also, thank you for the question - I was looking for how to do this myself!
This is to help anyone using PHP trying to accomplish this same goal. The example above uses...
to read the parameter being passes in. On a PHP site you would use...
You could use $_GET or $_REQUEST if your parameter is not in the post.
Of course you should should sanitize the input first. Something like this is pretty weak but it's a start...