I would like to implement the google search API in a joomla site. What would be the best way to pass the search query and show the results inside of my templates content area. Making a custom component or there is a lighter workaround?
You could always try RokAjaxSearch as I believe this has the ability to display results from Google. And above all, it's Ajax, therefore doesn't refresh the page.
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Today, I found there is Google Custom Search to improve websites' search features as I'd been pretty struggling for having better results on my website search engine. However, on my website, the result page is supposed to show some images with a Javascript-rendered carousel slider.
If possible I would like to hook up the carousel slider with the results. Even though I've googled about it, what I found is just "Look and Feel" on Google Custom Search, which is a basic-level customization for fonts or colors.
Does anyone know if Google Custom Search is a editable library?
The Custom Search JSON API might be a better fit for this use case. The GCS Search Element can be styled with CSS, but trying to get the results into a carousel sounds implausible.
I have added in the bottom of my html like this (just like how stackoverflow has it implemented):
<noscript>This site works best with Javascript is enabled</noscript>
but in one of my pages that has very little text, the text "Javascript is disabled" appears in Google search.
Is there a way to tell Google to avoid indexing this part? Or is there a better alternative instead of using <noscript> tag?
The issue is that Google often won't render Javascript. It can - but it often won't.
You either need to present a pre-rendered page or provide it with a meta description that accurately describes the content. Look up tags and how Google uses them to embellish it's search listings.
Other options like or can encourage Google from deviating from the provided description. However, a pre-rendered page for it to scrape is always more reliable.
I'm creating a SPA app using Durandal and I would like to include a credit card payment facility. The guys that I'm looking at requires you to give return URLs to success, cancel and a view other pages, is that possible?
To me it would be breaking the 'single page' part of SPA, but is it possible? Could I do it all in a window?
Disclaimer: I don't know Durandal, but you would solve this in an SPA using either "hashbang URIs" or actually re-serving the SPA in your webserver for the requested return URI and adjusting the content using the same technique as hangbash URIs but using history.pushstate/history.popstate instead, see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history
A more general article from Google is available here that covers the same principle: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/
This "works" because SPAs are SPAs only in that the browser requests a new HTML document from the server once (or in your case, twice), the SPA should still be updating the history and address-bar state of the UA as the user navigates the application, just as though it were a regular multi-page application.
A great example of this is GitHub's source navigator: Try here ( https://github.com/angular/angular.js ) and navigate the repository, observe that the contents of the file-listing change as does the address bar, but your browser doesn't reload the whole page... yet if you copy+paste the (modified) address bar address into a new browser window, you get the same page back.
I looked into doing credit card processing from a SPA and the best option I had found was Stripe. They supply a javascript file that looks like it would work, I never implemented it on my project due to time constraints so I can't confirm that it works but it looked very promising.
IFRAMEs are quite good for this sort of thing. You can use jQuery to hook an event handler to the page load event and this will tell you when the other end has responded. Load the 3rd party page into the IFRAME and serve response pages on the URLs you provide to the service provider. As mentioned by others you can use routes to identify the response pages. The IFRAME will stop the round-tripping from mucking up your application state and in fact it is possible to put script in your response pages that dot-notates its merry way up the DOM and into your app.
I need to build a search results page, hopefully using a Google Custom Search Engine. My problem though is that I need to add an extra link or icon to each item in the search result.
It would be an icon to generate a custom short-link for that particular result.
What would be the best way to go about doing that?
If you want to add html and stuff to google result,
you couldn't use the simple google custom search engine.
You should use google search api,
and than process the results and display them by yourself to the screen.
I am creating an application in vb where I need to attach the Google map with the application.
I have used the webbrowser for this and have added "http://maps.google.com/.. in the query address. This seems to work fine hoever my problem is I dnt want the complete google map webpage to be shown in the from, I just want the map portion to appear in the form. This is something which am not able to achieve. Could you ppplease help me on this? Thanks. Thanks a lot..
You could embed the Google Map onto some webpage of yours and then direct the WebBrowser to this web page.