URGENT: Website Search Application

[tyagi.anuj]

Hi,

I have started iPhone development few days back. I am planning to make a native application that can search a website an display the results. I am not able to find any tutorial on how to customize the search bar. I mean if I want the application to search for a keyword on google, then how do I do that?

I have gone through all the forums and tutorials.... Can't find it... Maybe its too easy for others, but I am not able to get it.... Please help me.....

Thank You

[Bertrand21]

why dont you make your own "search bar"

[tyagi.anuj]

Originally Posted by Bertrand21

why dont you make your own "search bar"

Thats what i want to do. I just want to know how do I add the search term at the end of the URL......

[Bertrand21]

its pretty simple. lets take google for example...

NSString *mainGoogle = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%@&btnG=Search", searchText.text];
	NSString *seachWordsGoogle = [mainGoogle stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"+"];
	addressBar.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", seachWordsGoogle];

so say i search for "Iphone Application Tutorials"
it takes that text and replaces " "(spaces) with "+" which is how google does it in the URL.

and then it takes that text and places it in the

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%@&btnG=Search

so it comes out like

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Iphone+Application+Tutorials&btnG=Search]

and then have a webview or something and send the url to that.

[tyagi.anuj]

Thank a lot for such a detailed explaination. I found a way to do it but your reply helped me understand the whole search process very well. Thank you again. Appreciate your help.