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Google Custom Search Engine (Site Search ~ CSE) Integration

Introduction

Pimcore provides a simple interface to the Google Custom Search Engine which makes it easy to integrate a search engine into your website.

Further information about Google CSE

Setup in CSE Control Panel and Google Cloud Console

  • Create and configure a new search engine at http://www.google.com/cse/ - for more information please visit: http://support.google.com/customsearch/ .
  • Test your search engine first using the preview on the right hand side.
  • If your results are as expected, go back to "Setup" (-> left navigation) and note the search engine ID
  • You'll need it later in the code (parameter 'cx' in configuration):

Google CSE Setup

  • Once you are finished go to https://console.developers.google.com/ create a new project, then search for Custom Search API and click on Enable. Custom Search API should now be listed under Enabled APIs in your project overview.
  • To get the necessary access keys, click on: Credentials -> Create credentials -> API key -> Server key Complete the setup as described and note the server API key.

Google CSE Server Key

Pimcore Setup

So now we got the search engine ID and a server API key which we need to finish the configuration in Pimcore.

Server API Key

Configure the API key in simple_api_key config in config.yaml as follows:

pimcore:
    services:
        google:
            client_id: 73893596983.apps.googleusercontent.com
            email: 73893596983@developer.gserviceaccount.com
            simple_api_key: AIzaSyCo9Wj49hYJWW2WgOju4iMYNTvdcBxmyQ8
            browser_api_key: AIzaSyBJX16kWAmUVEz1c1amzp2iKqAfumbcoQQ

Search engine ID

The search engine ID is used in your controller/action to configure the search service: \Pimcore\Google\Cse::search().

The place of interest (parameter cx) is marked with a comment in the code example below.

Code Example

Please note: These are examples from old demo application. Please adapt to the latest code style for implementation.

Controller Action

See: https://github.com/pimcore/demo-basic/tree/master/src/AppBundle/Controller/AdvancedController.php#L85-L85

View

See: https://github.com/pimcore/demo-basic/tree/master/app/Resources/views/Advanced/search.html.php

Partial View Script (includes/paging.php)

See: https://github.com/pimcore/demo-basic/tree/master/app/Resources/views/Includes/paging.html.php