Google Custom Search Engine with CI

[eluser]christophe2[/eluser]
Yes, out of the box it is easy to use and you don't need XML files. The only purpose of these XML files is to store your engine specifications, not displaying results. For instance, you can configure your Google Custom search with XML files hosted on your server in order to dynamically build a list of web sites from your database. Personnally, I use it to create a custom search engine for every web site in my directory. The only drawback: the search is a bit slower, because your XML files are not hosted by Google servers. You can manually upload them to Google servers too.
Christophe