[Mediawiki-l] Question: how-to embed a different search engine?

[David Gerisch]

Hello,

I have a need to search for things within my wiki that MySQL doesn't
easily find.  I've set up ht://Dig to index my wiki, and the htDig
search page itself does find the pages I need.  So my question is: what
steps would I take to embed a link to the htDig Search.html page?  In
essence, I'd like either:

1) the search portlet to 'shell out' to the htDig search (most
desirable)

-or-

2) just replace the search portlet with an anchor link to the htDig
search page.

I'm pretty new to MediaWiki, and do not know which files would be the
correct ones to modify.

My version information is:

MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.0 
PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.4 (apache2handler) 
MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18

Thank you for any assistance you can give me.


David Gerisch, Systems Development Specialist
A.C.S. / Tulare County Information Technology
degerisch at co.tulare.ca.us