[Mediawiki-l] Google search on nav bar

Fri Nov 11 03:03:08 UTC 2005

Hi Ben,

We hacked up a custom skin for our Intranet mediawiki installation which
includes code to easily search MediaWiki or Google.

There are probably prettier ways, but this worked for us.  Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Al.

<!-- script to change between MediaWiki and Google search -->
<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>

  	 <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>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Arnold (DSLWN) [mailto:BenA at datacom.co.nz] 
Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 12:59 p.m.
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Google search on nav bar

Is it easy to configure MediaWiki so that there is a Google search box on
the navigation bar? It's definitely a nice-to-have, but I think it would be
quite neat if it can be done easily.

Ben

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