Download Search Tweak

registered · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:17 pm

I was playing around with my Download module tonight, and realized that the 'other Search Engines' links were seriously
out of date. A lot of these web sites don't even exist any more, so I tweaked it.

This is what I came up with...

If you would like to do the same thing...

OPEN: 'modules/Downloads/index.php'

At the end of the search function...

FIND:

Code:

    echo "<br><br><center><font class=\"content\">"


    .""._TRY2SEARCH." \"$the_query\" "._INOTHERSENGINES."<br>"


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&amp;sc=on&amp;hl=on&amp;act=2006&amp;par=0&amp;q=$the_query&amp;kl=XX&amp;stype=stext\">Alta Vista</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=$the_query&amp;DU=days&amp;SW=web\">HotBot</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.infoseek.com/Titles?qt=$the_query\">Infoseek</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=$the_query\">Deja News</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=$the_query&amp;maxhits=20\">Lycos</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=$the_query\">Yahoo</a>"


    ."<br>"


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://es.linuxstart.com/cgi-bin/sqlsearch.cgi?pos=1&amp;query=$the_query&amp;language=&amp;advanced=&amp;urlonly=&amp;withid=\">LinuxStart</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.1stlinuxsearch.com/compass?scope=$the_query&amp;ui=sr\">1stLinuxSearch</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=$the_query\">Google</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.linuxdownloads.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$the_query&amp;engine=Downloads\">LinuxDownloads</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.freshmeat.net/search/?q=$the_query&amp;section=projects\">Freshmeat</a> - "


    ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.justlinux.com/bin/search.pl?key=$the_query\">JustLinux</a>"


    ."</font>";


    } else {


    echo "<center><font class=\"option\"><b>"._NOMATCHES."</b></font></center><br><br>";


    }


    CloseTable();


    include("footer.php");


}

CHANGE TO:

Code:

    echo "<br><br><center><font class=\"content\">"


        .""._TRY2SEARCH." \"$the_query\" "._INOTHERSENGINES."<br>"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.altavista.com/web/results?i&q=$the_query\">AltaVista</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://web.ask.com/web?q=$the_query\">Ask Jeeves</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/$the_query\">Dogpile</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.go.com/search/searchResults?&search=$the_query\">Go.com</a>"


        ."<br>"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=$the_query\">Google</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=$the_query\">HotBot</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&query=$the_query\">Lycos</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?&q=$the_query\">MSN</a>&nbsp;<b>&middot;</b>&nbsp;"


        ."<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=$the_query\">Yahoo</a>"


        ."</font>";


    } else {


        echo "<center><font class=\"option\"><b>"._NOMATCHES."</b></font></center><br><br>";


    }


    CloseTable();


    include("footer.php");


}

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Thanks Vin!