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Title: Search the Coppermine Forum From FireFox
Post by: onthepike on July 12, 2010, 04:51:08 am

I don't know if anyone else will find this useful or not, but I thought I'd share it nonetheless.

It's an add-on for FireFox that allows you to search the Coppermine forums from the search box of your browser. This was my first attempt at such a thing, so if it's awful, you'll understand why :-)

Most of the 16k file is the base64 icon. The rest is just a search form redirect.

If you'd care to try it out, unzip the file to your desktop (so you may easily inspect), then move the file to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins (or wherever your Firefox searchplugins directory is located). Then restart Firefox. It should appear as shown below:

Jeff

Title: Re: Search the Coppermine Forum From FireFox
Post by: Joachim Müller on July 12, 2010, 07:52:49 am

In which aspect does it differ from the plugin OpenSearch (http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/en/plugins.htm#plugin_bundled_opensearch)?

Title: Re: Search the Coppermine Forum From FireFox
Post by: onthepike on July 12, 2010, 08:27:57 am

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OpenSearch (opensearch): v1.4
Author:    Created by Nibbler, converted for cpg1.5.x by Joachim Müller
Description:    An implementation of OpenSearch for Coppermine.
When enabled, visitors can add your gallery to their browser's search bar.

I don't think they do the same thing. Your plugin is much more complex and is designed to allow site visitors to add a gallery to their browser. The thing I threw together searches this forum, not any gallery.

Unless I'm missing something?

Title: Re: Search the Coppermine Forum From FireFox
Post by: Joachim Müller on July 12, 2010, 09:33:23 am

Ah, OK, I should have been looking more carefully. Thanlks for the clarification.
For those who find advanced searching options usefull: the search form that can be accessed using the search button at the very top row of this page can be accessed as well "standalone": there are several custom search engines that I created to enable users to search the documentation in their language:

• CoppermineSearch (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:c7ywz5r7hk4) will search coppermine-gallery.net/*, documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/*, forum.coppermine-gallery.net/*, *.cpg-contrib.org/*
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/es (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:8ndxnr03bcg) will search the documentation in Spanish only
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/de (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:pguj0cqk2xc) will search the documentation in German only
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/nl (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:5dgz-mtqq70) will search the documentation in Dutch only
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/fr (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:1vlqkizy-rg) will search the documentation in French only
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/en (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:keefjtiy3lo) will search the documentation in English only
• documentation.coppermine-gallery.net (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009353514429642786404:1fg_c1k1td8) will search the entire documentation in all existing languages

You're of course welcome to make use of that as well in your custom Firefox search.

Title: Re: Search the Coppermine Forum From FireFox
Post by: nicamarie on July 20, 2010, 12:03:11 pm

I want to suggest also on how to search Coppermine Forum topics in google search engine. This is the keyword inurl:forum.coppermine.
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