Published January 30th, 2005 by Jim O'Halloran
PHP.net Search
For quite a while now I’ve taken advantage of the fact that you can search php.net just by adding whatever you want to search for onto the end of the URL (e.g. http://au.php.net/array_keys). In fact whenever I’m working with PHP I usually have a tab open to php.net just for this purpose.
Generally this works reasonably well, but occasionally you close your tab or mistype something and its a bit messy. I use the links toolbar in Firefox heavily, and the bookmarklets that I’ve got for MT and FoF are really useful. So I sat down and created a bookmarklet to do a search of PHP.net. Drag this link onto your links toolbar. Then whenever you click on it you’ll be prompted for a search term, and then it’ll build the appropriate URL and take you straight there.
The little bit of javascript is as follows:
javascript:top.location ='http://au.php.net/'+prompt('Search PHP.net for:');
You might want to change the “au.php.net” to point to your local mirror, but otherwise it works well. I haven’t teasted it in IE, but it should work.