RELEASED - FF searchplugin for Joomla! Forge

[manuman]

I'm pleased to announce the interim release of the Joomla! Developer Forge Firefox searchplugin. Its the interim release as currently it will produce results when used in the standard searchbox(top right), not the sidebar which I'm still working on.

You cangrab your copy from the WorkWare Project at the Joomla! Forge... http://developer.joomla.org/sf/go/projects.workware/frs.firefox_searchplugins.joomladeveloper

To install...

• Unzip into the searchplugins folder in the Mozilla Firefox install (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins)
• Restart Firefox
• Enjoy 

Hope somebody might find it helpfull. Any comments and feedback are welcome.

Cheers
Shayne

PS. help.joomla.org is also available with the rest of the Joomla! sites in the works. 

[manuman]

Update... the file now uses the new Joomla! Logo.

Cheers
Shayne

[bluesaze]

Hey nice manuman works like a charm .........

[Boomzilla]

Indeed - thanks! I downloaded and installed it and it worked first time.

Would be useful if you could either post a brief summary of how this is implemented OR point me a such a description within your project.
SourceForge uses Lucene for it's own search and can search meta-data *and* the contents of documents held within the system (it knows about over 300 binary file types). Do you tap into the SourceForge search at all or are you just pointing Google at the site (and if so, perhaps a Google site map would help improve hits etc).

Thanks!

Col

[manuman]

hehe... its actually much more simple than that... it does nothing more than post the request directly into the forge's own search. Look at the code in the .src and you'll understand.

But wait.... I'm now working on a FF toolbar for Joomla! in general, including the Forge... with this we will be able to do some true magic including customised searches (the current one just searches projects).

Would like a pointer to any Lucene information you might have, also any hooks that you have provided for search purposes.

Cheers
Shayne