clickbank search engine help needed

Greetings. I have installed the ClickBank Contextual because I really want to create a clickbank search engine on my site askhow.com - ie, all results are clickbank products from search. I read an article said you could do it w/this script:

Here's the article

http://paymentblogger.com/2007/06/19/how-to-create-your-own-clickbank-search-engine/

I downloaded the example file and am having initial trouble with the form to show up correctly.

I haven't change anything, except updated the info required.

Any help would be great because I am losing traffic as we speak, thanks

Lisa

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Hi.

First of all do you have the clickbank contextual script installed in your server?

Yes, at the root directory (public_html)

thanks

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ok, and what is the error that you get?

basically, if you look at www.askhow.com you can see i get the form info and no search box,

thanks

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Yes that's because you are not writing the html code correct. Instead of <> you have &qlt;....

ok let me look, i took it from the example in the article linked above, (downloadable zip)

It's funny the code doesn't have that in it: here's the code:(i changed the user and pass but that's it)
I usually work with html, so I'm not certain what i need to do to make the php form work.

thanks for taking a look.
Code starts here:
<?php
/**
 * PHP function for integration of search results with Clickbank program
 *
 *      Requires : Clickbank contextual script
 *            http://cbcontextual.com/
 *
 * For support issues please refer to the webdigity forums :
 *            www.webdigity.com
 *
 * If you like this script please give us some link love
 *            paymentblogger.com
 *
 * ==============================================================================
 *
 * @version $Id: Clickbank Search Engine ,v 1 2007/06/19 17:00:32 $
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2007 Payment Blogger (http://paymentblogger.com )
 * @author Nick Papanotas <nikolas@webdigity.com>
 * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU General Public License (GPL)
 *
 * ==============================================================================
 */

//Settings :
$uname = 'notrealname';//Username in your CBcontextual installation
$pass  = 'notrealpass';//Password in your CBcontextual installation
$instURL = 'http://www.askhow.com ';//The url path to your CBcontextual installation. No trail slash
$limit = 15;//How many results to display

echo htmlspecialchars('<form method="post" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" >
   <input type="text" name="q" value="'.$_POST['q'].'" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>');

if ( !empty($_POST['q'])){
  $results = unserialize(file_get_contents($instURL.'/api.php?uname='.$uname.'&pass='.$pass.'&nr='.$limit.'&type=php&keywords='.$_POST['q']));
  if ( !$results )
     echo 'No results. Please search again.';
  else{
    foreach ( $results as $res )
       echo '<a href="'.$instURL.'/clk.php?i='.$res['id'].'">'.$res['title'].'</a><br />'.$res['description'].'<br />';
  }
}

?>

Ok, I just wanted to show you that the clickbank contextual script is working, but I can't get the search engine, scroll down and you'll see the form mess up, thanks again for your help

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Replace this:

echo htmlspecialchars('<form method="post" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" >
   <input type="text" name="q" value="'.$_POST['q'].'" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>');


with this:

echo '<form method="post" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" >
   <input type="text" name="q" value="'.$_POST['q'].'" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>';

Thanks, I get the search box now (at the bottom of the page) but each time I type in a search I get this error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.askhow.com/api.php?uname=askhow&pass=lulub3&nr=15&type=php&keywords=how to) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/askhow/public_html/index.php on line 53
No results. Please search again.

Here is what is on line 53 in my code:
$results = unserialize(file_get_contents($instURL.'/api.php?uname='.$uname.'&pass='.$pass.'&nr='.$limit.'&type=php&keywords='.$_POST['q']));

Thanks again for your time,

Lisa

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Change the $instURL directive to where you have installed the CBCS (eg. $instURL = 'http://www.askhow.com/cb'; )

ok i did that and nothing changed, likely because it is installed not in a folder but at the public_html so there is no cb folder. once I typed in 'test' and got a bunch of random results but otherwise i have this error above,

thanks

Here is something that may be helpful.  I set it back to the way is was, ie, w/o the cb at the end and here is the deal. It works if there are no spaces in the search so if i type in How_to_draw, it works but if i type in how to draw it doesn't. What can i do?

Assuming the string breaking with a space gets fixed, I'm perplexed by results. If you type in bike, then a good result come in. If  you type in how_to_ride_a_bike then it is whack. The best results seem to come from organic_gardening.

I'm really hoping this can work.

thanks,

Lisa

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Ok, now change this line :

unserialize(file_get_contents($instURL.'/api.php?uname='.$uname.'&pass='.$pass.'&nr='.$limit.'&type=php&keywords='.$_POST['q']));

to this:

unserialize(file_get_contents($instURL.'/api.php?uname='.$uname.'&pass='.$pass.'&nr='.$limit.'&type=php&keywords='.urlencode($_POST['q'])));

ok, it seems to be working, from a form stand point.. is there any way to get better results? ie, the how to ride a bike gets strange results but ride bike gets a real one?

thanks

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I don't think this is possible at the moment. You should probably contact the owners of the script for this (I no longer own the clickbank contextual script)

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