Easy PHP Search in Firefox
October 25th, 2007 by 
Barry O'Donovan
Niall has created a quick Opensearch file to add the PHP Function search to the search bar of Firefox 2 And IE7. If anyone is interested it’s available here.
For those that don’t know, this feature has existing in KDE in multiple forms for some time. For example, pressing ALT-F2 opens the Run Command dialog and typing, for example:
php:fopen
will bring up PHP.net’s own search page. The same goes for the location bar in Konqueror.
By the way, other nice short cuts in the Run Command dialog include:
-
gg: <keywords>for a quick Google search; -
wp: <keywords>for a quick Wikipedia search; -
dict: <keyword>for a quick dictionary look-up; -
man: <keyword>for a man page look-up; -
info: <keyword>for an info page look-up; -
rfc: <number>to be brought to the relevant RFC page;
Of course, entering a command will execute it and just entering a URL will open it in Konqueror.
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3 Comments »
October 26th, 2007 at 14:13
Firefox can do something similar by assigning keywords to a bookmark and having %s in the URL. If the URL is “http://www.example.com/foo?blah=%s” then “keyword x y z” becomes “http://www.example.com/foo?blah=x%20y%20z”. Those are called quick searches. You can also create them by right clicking on a search box and selecting ‘Add a keyword for this search’
Here are some of my quick searches:
URL: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?From=USD&To=EUR&Amount=%s
keyword: $
Entering “$ 10″ into the address bar (not the space) converts from US dollars to euro
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
keyword: w
Entering “w Ireland” brings you to the wikipedia article on Ireland.
URL: http://ie.php.net/%s
keyword: php
Shows the PHP documention for that function.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:38
Thanks for that Rory – it’s a good tip.
May 10th, 2008 at 09:24
Este Programa es muy util si deseas colocar una Web Personal Usando tu Propia IP Publica que te suministra tu compañia proveedora de Internet:
1) Corre el programa
2) Verifica tu IP Publica.
3) Abre tu navegador y coloca ese numero alli en la direccion
y debe mostrar el contenido de Easy PHP