Status: obsolete

There's now a built-in /search page in Fossil 1.31 and later. It scans the current contents right away, includes Wiki pages, documents or all files, checkins and timeline events. Furthermore it can be configured vi /srchsetup to build and utilize a FTS (full text search) table.

Old userland search function

The Stackoverflow and GitHub themes already include this search feature. Its display is implemented as TH1 script.
It requires a litte setup, but works with other themes as well.

• Use fossil-search-table.php to have your repositories updated with a fx_search table. (Thanks go to Joel for pointing the fx_ prefix feature out.)

  • It traverses existing *.fossil repositories. But the glob() could point to just one repo.fossil of course.
    
    
  • Have it run as cron script.
    
    

• Unless you use the so-skin.txt config, you have to manually import the th1x.tcl script as th1-setup to your repository configuration:

     fossil setting th1-setup "$(cat th1x.tcl)"
  

• In your templates header add following invocation code at the bottom:

     <th1>  catch {ui::search_on_wiki}  </th1>
  

• And following as your search box:

     <form action="wiki">
        <input name="name" size="28" placeholder="search wiki+files">
     </form>
  

  For the so-skin you could else still edit the old Google search box in, of course.

Attachments

See features/ for

• fossil-search-table.php

• th1x.tcl