Get search results from the CUL libraries collection

Default html interface:

http://web.search.cornell.edu/search?client=default_frontend&site=libraries&q=canoe

Here is a form that gives you results with the default interface:

<form action="http://web.search.cornell.edu/search" method="GET" name="gs">
<label for="search-form-query">SEARCH Cornell University Library Websites:<br /></label>
<input type="text" name="q" value="" size="50" maxlength="256" id="search-form-query" />
<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="go" id="search-form-submit" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="gsa_client" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="libraries" />  <!-- note: 'libraries' instead of 'default_collection' -->
</form>

If you want to embed the results in your web page you ask for them via xml:

http://web.search.cornell.edu/search?output=xml_no_dtd&client=default_frontend&site=libraries&q=canoe

Google XML Reference site

These documents show all the details about the xml structure returned from the Google Seach Appliance: 

http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/46/xml_reference.html

Modifying the search form

To use this library collection in a standard Cornell banner, set the form action to an intermediate file that will sort out parameters for web.search.cornell.edu :

<form action="qna-results.cfm" method="GET" name="gs">
	<div id="search-input">
		<label for="search-form-query">SEARCH:<br /></label>
		<input type="text" name="q" value="" size="50" maxlength="256" id="search-form-query" />
		<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="go" id="search-form-submit" />
		<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
		<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="" />
		<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
		<input type="hidden" name="gsa_client" value="default_frontend" />
		<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
	</div>
	<div id="search-filters">
		<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="this-site"  id="search-filters0" />
		<label for="search-filters1">This Site</label>
		<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="library.cornell.edu" checked="checked" id="search-filters1" />
		<label for="search-filters1">Library Pages</label>
		<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="cornell.edu"  id="search-filters2" />
		<label for="search-filters2">Cornell</label>
		<a href="http://web.search.cornell.edu/"                    >more options</a>
	</div>
</form>

Here's a coldfusion search example, and here's a php search example.

Search Results - Coldfusion

Sanjeev Shukla presented Coldfusion code for handling the search results 4/12/06 at the CU Web Forum Meeting. He later released a second version with some bug fixes:

http://forum.web.cornell.edu/mtg_materials/gsa_package_v2.zip

Search Results - php

I've built a php object called ~jgreidy:cul_gsa_search() to handle the interaction with  http://web.search.cornell.edu and parse the xml results it returns. I also have an example wrapper script and ~jgreidy:css file to display the search results. Here is the wrapper script and a test page. The code you will need to use will look like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="search.css"     />
</head>
<body>
<?php 
  require_once("cul_web_search.php"); 
  cul_web_search_form(); 
?>
<h2>Search Results</h2>
<?php cul_web_search_results(); ?>

Style the results

I've attached a ~jgreidy:css stylesheet for Cornell Google search results as a starting point.  Certain results may be marked as 'Keymatch Results' and these get special styling.

Here is a nice page from New York University describing how to style the xml Google search results using xsl. 

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