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POWordpress search results on external page
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copied!<p>I have a custom search engine on a non-wordpress page. This search engine searches a database for a city (specified by a text input) and then returns the relevant information about that city and displays it on the page. </p> <p>What I want to do now, is to below those results, display the results of a wordpress search of the same term on a blog that resides on the same server/domain. So basically I want to show the same results that a wordpress search of that keyword would return, but I want to display them on a non-wordpress page, not in the blog's theme.</p> <p><strong>What I have:</strong></p> <p>a variable holding a search term, the search term has already been shampooed and conditioned to be search engine friendly.</p> <p><strong>What I don't want to do</strong></p> <ul> <li>I don't want to use an iframe and have the blog template be displayed on the page.</li> <li>I can't have a secondary search box. I need to somehow use the value of the variable that I have, I can't ask the user to submit a second form or anything.</li> </ul> <p><strong>My ideas so far</strong></p> <p>Is there a way to run the wordpress search function and grab the data that it returns? I've gotten as far as including wp_blog_header.php on my static page so that I can make use of the wordpress functions.</p> <p>Or would it be better to write a function that duplicates what the wordpress search does on the wordpress databases, but returns the data in a way that I can use?</p> <p>Or is there a different approach that I should take for this that I've overlooked? Thanks!</p>

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