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This is a nice hack that will change which international Google site is used when searching from the MKPortal Search block. The URL will change depending on what language the user has set in forum preferences.

For example, an English user's search would go to google.com but a German user's search would go to google.de

Thanks to stefroy for a great idea. This should be a default feature of MKPortal.

FIND in /mkportal/blocks/search.php:

				<tr>
				  <td class="tdblock" align="center">
					<a href="http://www.google.it/"><img src="$this->siteurl/mkportal/modules/search/google_logo.gif" alt="Google" align="top" /></a>


					<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" target="blank">		
					<input size="12" name="q" class="mkblkinput" />

					<input type="hidden" name="hl" />
					<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="{$this->lang['m_search']}" />
					</form>
				  </td>
				</tr>

REPLACE WITH:

				<tr>
				  <td class="tdblock" align="center">
					<a href="{$this->lang['googlesite']}"><img src="$this->siteurl/mkportal/modules/search/google_logo.gif" alt="Google" align="top" /></a>


					<form action="{$this->lang['googlesite']}search" method="get" target="blank">		
					<input size="12" name="q" class="mkblkinput" />

					<input type="hidden" name="hl" />
					<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="{$this->lang['m_search']}" />
					</form>
				  </td>
				</tr>

ADD this to each lang_global.php language file:

$langmk['googlesite'] = "http://www.google.com/";

Change the URL in each lang file to point to the Google site for each language. For example put this in the German language file...

$langmk['googlesite'] = "http://www.google.de/";