A Better Texpattern Forum Search

One of the longest ongoing issues that can be found on the Textpattern Forum is not anything related to Texpattern itself, but the ability to reliably search the forum using search function that is built into PunBB.

I’ve mentioned in the past that using google to search the forum is a great alternative to that built in search function. And as of earlier today, since that search function is broken, an external search engine is your only way to perform a search of the forum. So in order to make it easy to search the forum using google, I’ve created 2 bookmarklets.

Selected Text Textpattern Forum Google Search

The first bookmarklet performs a search based on text that you’ve highlighted on the current page. But I’ll warn you up front, this bookmarklet will not work in all browsers. Check quirksmode for more on this. This bookmarklet has been tested sucessfully on the latest versions of IE and Firefox. It will not work on Opera. To test, highlight "archive plugin" and click the link below.

Textpattern Forum Google Search

Textpattern Forum Popup Google Search

The second bookmarklet will prompt you for your search terms and then run your search. It should work in all modern browsers. To test just click the link below and enter your search terms.

Textpattern Forum Popup Google Search

In order to use them, just drag the links above to a toolbar in your browser or add them to your favorites. Then click on either when you want to use them. Happy searching!

Comments

31. March 2005

Thanks once again! These work great. Should make it much easier to wade through.

cheers!

Jamie

1. April 2005

Thanks again Wilshire! ~rjjm (From the textpattern forum)

2. April 2005

Thanks for sharing

These work great in latest Firefox
happy textpattern research

marios

marios

4. April 2005

Thanks heaps for this Wilshire!

NeilA

12. April 2005

Comes through again! Better than the original. Nice one, wilshire.

Destry

17. April 2005

Excellent! Thanks a lot.

14. October 2005

Thanks for help

27. November 2005

Magnifico, only took me 7 months to find this solution with the existing search.

mrdale

11. February 2006

I made a txp forum Firefox search plugin a while ago, but as you’ve pointed out the punBB search is near worthless.

So I made some more search plugins using Google like your bookmarklet, for the Textpattern Forum, textpattern.org, and the TextDrive Forum (among others)

http://www.tramchase.com/software/232/firefox-search-plugins

Straight on mycroft:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=textpattern&submitform=Search

7. June 2006

Thanks again ;)

17. April 2007

Thanks for this post! Nice work

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