Mailing List Archive: Alternate Search Provider

Hi,

From what I can tell, I have a choice between Google and an internal
Lucene search provider. I am wondering how I can add in an
alternative search implementation? It need only submit the query to a
URL and then redirect to the provider's site much like the Google
search provider does. For example, what if I wanted to have a Yahoo
provider for search, or maybe MSN or something else? Pointers at
documentation would be fine, otherwise some details on what to do
would be great. I'm a long time user of Forrest in terms of the
basics, but don't have much deeper knowledge beyond the standard build/
test cycle for static website deployment.

Also, I'd like to be able to do this without having to customize
Forrest itself, but am willing to create a new skin.

I am using 0.8.

Thanks,
Grant

To answer my own question, here's what I did:

Copied the pelt skin to my own skins area and renamed it.
Changed forrest.properties to use the new skin
Opened skin-to-xhtml.xsl and searched for the Google magic string
Replaced it with my own parameters
Rebuilt the site.

Thanks,
Grant

On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From what I can tell, I have a choice between Google and an internal
> Lucene search provider. I am wondering how I can add in an
> alternative search implementation? It need only submit the query to
> a URL and then redirect to the provider's site much like the Google
> search provider does. For example, what if I wanted to have a Yahoo
> provider for search, or maybe MSN or something else? Pointers at
> documentation would be fine, otherwise some details on what to do
> would be great. I'm a long time user of Forrest in terms of the
> basics, but don't have much deeper knowledge beyond the standard
> build/test cycle for static website deployment.
>
> Also, I'd like to be able to do this without having to customize
> Forrest itself, but am willing to create a new skin.
>
> I am using 0.8.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant