I have created a small search plug-in for FireFox that searches the php manual and wanted to share it with you.
heh, I just created a copy of the “yahoo.xml” file and renamed it to “php.xml” and edited some lines,I got it working in no time. hmm, maybe I will create other ones too. ok, follow this 3 steps to get it working on your FF.

  1. copy the following XML lines to a new file and call it “php.xml”
  2. put “php.xml” in your “c:\program files\Mozilla FireFox\searchplugins” folder or this path’s equivalent on your system.
  3. restart Firefox
<SearchPlugin xmlns=”http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/”>
<ShortName>php manual</ShortName>
<Description>php manual Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type=”text/html” method=”POST” template=”http://php.net/search.php”>
<Param name=”pattern” value=”{searchTerms}”/>
<Param name=”show” value=”quickref” />
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.php.net/</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>