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This is interesting and gave me an idea for a project I have been working on. Can anyone on the list point me to some Mozilla FireFox information for how to construct what the UI calls "sidebars", e.g., View->Sidebar. It's not the same as a search plug-ins, but I'm looking for information of Sidebars and I also wouldn't mind some pointers to creating search plug-ins. Thanks, Andy. > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Walter Lewis > Sent: 16 March, 2005 09:34 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] firefox search extension for OPACs? > > Kenneth R. Irwin wrote: > > Unfortunately, I have not the first clue about how to go > about doing that. > > I would have thought that it would be easy to find a "make your own > > search tool" link on the Mozilla website, but I can't find one. > > Here's an example of the search plugin that I adapted from > one by James Day. > > The file has a ".src" extension and goes in the > "searchplugins" folder withiin your Firefox install. > > The label that appears in Firefox is the name attribute of search. > The icon is the updateIcon attribute of the Browser. I got > lazy with this one. For something else I used the > favicon.ico of the site (it's well sized for this) > > The key is that the form value supplied by the user is > identified something like: > <input name="term" user=""> > In this case the external form you are supplanting is expecting the > *user* to fill in the input field with the name "term". The > rest of the <input> values are simply things we need to > supply to the form handling script so it won't break. > > I filled in the browser update* values with a URL to mozdev > but frankly have only required that the referenced files be > in the searchplugins folder. At that point it just seems to work. > > Walter > > ==== > # Status: Working > # Horizon Information Portal plugin for Mozilla # # By James > Day, jday at cflc dot net # # Created: October 13, 2004 # > Last updated: October 14, 2004 # Modified by Walter Lewis for > HHPL: 15 Oct 2004 # # Note: Does a General Keyword search only. > > <search > version="7.1" > name="HHPL Catalogue (Keyword)" > description="Halton Hills Public Library Catalogue Search" > action="http://cat.hhpl.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp" > searchForm="http://cat.hhpl.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp" > method="GET" > > > > <input name="term" user=""> > <input type="hidden" name="menu" value="search"> <input > type="hidden" name="aspect" value="basic_search"> <input > type="hidden" name="sort" value=""> <input type="hidden" > name="npp" value="20"> <input type="hidden" name="ipp" > value="20"> <input type="hidden" name="profile" value="hhpl"> > <input type="hidden" name="index" value="GW"> > > <input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search"> > > <interpret > resultListStart="<!-- RESULT LIST START -->" > resultListEnd="<!-- RESULT LIST END -->" > resultItemStart="<!-- RESULT ITEM START -->" > resultItemEnd="<!-- RESULT ITEM END -->" > > > </search> > > <browser > update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/HHPLkeywords.src" > updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/yahoo.gif" > updateCheckDays="30" > > >