[support] implementing a 3dr party search script

[Larry Garfield]

The search framework lets you implement your own search mechanism.  I don't know if you can integrate the mediawiki search into the same "content" tab that searches nodes, but you can certainly add your own tab for searching some other system.  The best reference I've seen for that (and where I learned you could) is The Book(tm), "Pro Drupal Development".  There's a whole section on doing exactly that.  Highly recommended.

--Larry Garfield

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:20:29 +0200, "Neil: esl-lounge.com" <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
> We have managed to successfully integrate mediawiki and drupal and are now
> faced with the whole issue of unified search.
> 
> Firstly, I suppose I should ask if it's possible to get Drupal's core
> search module to search other MySQL tables in other databases, which would
> allow us to point it towards our mediawiki installation.
> 
> Failing that, how would one go about working with a third party script?
> I've already used Fluid Dynamics' perl-based script on another
> (non-Drupal) site but I imagine I would need a better PHP based script for
> this task.
> 
> Has anyone done anything similar before?
> 
> Neil
>