RE: [Mediawiki-l] Question: how-to embed a different search engin e? - MediaWiki-l

7 Apr 2005


      From: David Gerisch [mailto:DEGerisch@co.tulare.ca.us]
[snip]
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just replace the search portlet with an anchor link to the htDig
search page.
What I did was to edit \skin\skinname.php (where skinname is the skin you
are using - I took monobook & derived a new skin from it to hold all our
customisations).
The code we now have for the search portlet is:
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--
function ActionDeterminator()
{
if(document.searchform.engine[0].checked == true) {
document.searchform.action = '<?php $this->text('searchaction') ?>';
}
if(document.searchform.engine[1].checked == true) {
document.searchform.action = 'http://www.google.co.nz/search';
document.searchform.method = 'get';
document.searchform.q.value = document.searchform.search.value;
}
return true;
}
function entsub(myform) {
  if (window.event && window.event.keyCode == 13) {
    ActionDeterminator();
    myform.submit();
  } else {
    return true;
  }
}
// -->
</script>
<tr>
    <td align="right" nowrap>
     <div class="searchtext">
     <form name="searchform" action="<?php $this->text('searchaction')
?>" id="searchform">
      <input name="q" type="hidden" value="">
      <input type="radio" name="engine" checked><font
color="white">Intranet</font>
      <input type="radio" name="engine"><font color="white">The web</font>
        <input name="search" type="text"
      <?php if($this->haveMsg('accesskey-search')) {
        ?>accesskey="<?php $this->msg('accesskey-search') ?>"<?php }
        if( isset( $this->data['search'] ) ) {
        ?> value="<?php $this->text('search') ?>"<?php } ?>
onkeypress="return entsub(this.form)"/>
      <input type='image' name="fulltext"
        class="searchButton" src="<?php $this->text('stylepath')
?>/<?php $this->text('stylename') ?>/search.gif" alt="Search"
        value="<?php $this->msg('search') ?>" onClick="return
ActionDeterminator();" />
      &nbsp;
      </form>
      </div> <!-- searchtext -->
    </td>
  </tr>
Which allows us to choose between a google search & a wiki search.
Hope this helps.
al.