Replace search with Google Custom Search

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This mod assumes you have an adsense account and are using Google Custom Search.
You want to make sure your results page is named something other than the vb default search.php, this leaves the vb option open to those who click "advanced search"
Open your template navbar
find
PHP:
<form action="search.php?do=process" method="post" id="navbar_search">
replace with the form line of the google supplied code
example:
PHP:
<form action="http://www.ahfb2000.com/google.php" id="cse-search-box">
find
PHP:
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionurl}" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
replace with the first 3 hidden input types in your google code
example:
PHP:
    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
    <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
find
PHP:
<input type="text" value="" name="query" class="textbox" />
replace with
PHP:
<input type="text" value="" name="q" class="textbox" />
find
PHP:
<input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" />
replace with
PHP:
<input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="sa" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" />
find
PHP:
</form>
add this after
PHP:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&amp;lang=en"></script>
 

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