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
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
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
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