How To Create Simple PHP Widgets


Objective:

  • Creating a simple PHP Widget, which will allow the user to reach the result page of Google! from your site.

Requirement:

Creating the form(index.htm):

<form action=“google.php” method=“get” name=“query_form”>

<input id=“search” onclick=‘value=”” ‘ name=“search” type=“text” value=“Enter the search term” />

<input id=“submit” name=“submit” type=“submit” value=“Submit” />

</form>

PHP Script(google.php):

?php
$url=”http://www.google.com/search?q=”.$_REQUEST[‘search’];//Adding the user query with the URL
header(“Location:$url”);
?>

<?PHP

$url=“http://www.google.com/search?q=”.$_REQUEST[‘search’];

header(“Location:$url”);

?>

Download the full script, here

Even you can create more widgets just by changing the URLs. I’m mentioning few search URLs:

  • Yahoo Search : http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=
  • Live Search : http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=
  • Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=
  • Answers : http://www.answers.com/topic/
  • Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Thanks to SachinKRaj for guiding me on this script. Do post your comments 🙂

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