How to open google and search automatically?

[sensalim]

Ok say I have a GUI that has an input box and a go button.

User put "sql tutorial" in the input box and press {ENTER} (or click the go button).

This far I know how to do.

But, how do I open IE (or user's default browser) and it automatically 'googles' "sql tutorial"

displaying the result for the user?

Thanks!

(I tried search but confused on what the keyword should be, found nothing useful so far).

[LIMITER]

Here's a quick example :

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#Include <IE.au3>

$a = InputBox("Google search","type what you want to search here :")
Preview($a)

Func Preview($Submit = "")
    $oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")
    $oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "q")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery, $Submit)
    _IEFormSubmit ($oForm)
EndFunc

Hope it helped !

[sensalim]

Yes it works.

Thank you.

Edit:

How about maps.google.com

or what is this thing:

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")
$oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "q")

Edit:

Oh I got it, it's from the page source, <form and stuff

<form action="/search" name=f><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign=top><td width=25%>&nbsp;</td><td align=center nowrap><input name=hl type=hidden value=en><input maxlength=2048 name=q size=55 title="Google Search" value="">

Edited April 7, 2008 by sensalim

[LIMITER]

With pleasure !

[spudw2k]

You could also go straight to the 1st results page instead of the homepage, but it's good to learn how to use forms via autoit.

#Include <IE.au3>

$a = InputBox("Google search","type what you want to search here :")
GoogleSearch($a)

Func GoogleSearch($strSearch)
    $strSearch = StringReplace($strSearch," ","+")
    $oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=" & $strSearch)
EndFunc

[sensalim]

Crap, it doesn't work with maps.google.com

... hint?

Edit:

It works with spudw2k's way, though.

Edited April 7, 2008 by sensalim

[spudw2k]

Dang, Googles source is not very reader friendly. Try this instead in the meantime.

#Include <IE.au3>
$a = InputBox("Google search","type what you want to search here :")
GoogleSearch($a)

Func GoogleSearch($strSearch)
    $strSearch = StringReplace($strSearch," ","+")
    $oIE = _IECreate ("http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hl=en&q=" & $strSearch)
EndFunc

Edited April 7, 2008 by spudw2k