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Support for extra parameters

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Chad Crowell
Posted: 05 October 2010 05:23 PM
Chad Crowell

I have a G site search with these parameters:

<input name=“cx” type=“hidden” value=“017180522165740084141:v1wbqwoih_k” />
<input name=“as_q” type=“hidden” value=“more:tuck” />
<input name=“cof” type=“hidden” value=“FORID:11” />
<input name=“ie” type=“hidden” value=“UTF-8” />
<input id=“btnask” value=“Go” name=“submit” type=“submit” />

I just setup your plugin on the site and am passing the cse to it (cx value above) and also need to pass the as_q value to it to limit the results to a specific part of the collection.  Can this be done?
 
Derek Hogue
Posted: 05 October 2010 05:34 PM # 1
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Derek Hogue

Hey Chad—the Google AJAX Search API doesn’t accept the advanced query parameters as far as I can tell, so using this method you’d have to add any results tweaks via the CSE control panel directly.
 
Matt Bower
Posted: 07 October 2010 04:00 PM # 2
Matt Bower

Hi Derek,

I’m Chad’s code monkey. I hacked your plugin to just add a few additional tag parameters and it worked great. I added the following just below the check for the “cse” param:


if($TMPL->fetch_param(‘as_q’) != FALSE) $args[‘as_q’] = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘as_q’);
if($TMPL->fetch_param(‘cof’) != FALSE) $args[‘cof’] = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘cof’);
if($TMPL->fetch_param(‘ie’) != FALSE) $args[‘ie’] = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘ie’);

I tried to find docs on some of these params. I couldn’t find them in Google’s docs (go figure) but came up with this page that mentions some other GSS params to consider adding support for. It looks like they can all just get rolled into the AJAX URL call.

http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/websearch/google/asq_documentation
 
Derek Hogue
Posted: 07 October 2010 07:03 PM # 3
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Derek Hogue

Hey Matt—interesting to know, must be an undocumented part of the API. WIll add those parameter into an update. Thanks!
 
Matt Bower
Posted: 11 October 2010 03:51 PM # 4
Matt Bower

Hey Derek. Got passed this URL for GSS param docs. Not sure if you’ve seen this before or not. Seems pretty comprehensive.

http://www.google.com/cse/docs/resultsxml.html
 
Derek Hogue
Posted: 12 October 2010 12:23 PM # 5
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Derek Hogue

Thanks Matt ... I’m not entirely sure that the AJAX Search API follows the same specs as the GSS, but when I get time I’ll experiment with that theory.
 
     
 
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