[Tracker] Web Interface?

["Bruno Dery" <brunod76 gmail com>]

Hi all,

just wondering is there any web interface for Tracker? I'm considering of building one myself, I haven't seen any info on such feature/project right now. Also, may I suggest a name change lol? "Tracker" returns way too much results on search engines, I had a hard time finding any info around the web on this due to too many unrelated search results (tracker is kind of generic).

Basically I'd like to start with something simple, just a PHP front-end that runs searches in the background using the current shell tools (simply using shell command calls and formatting back the results into something HTMLized). I'm also thinking of implementing an RSS feed capability on top of it to allow some kind of "search results feed" functionality (it would provide a self-updating list of items from search results for any given search string). 

I tried running a search from php's "shell_exec" commands (there's a few variants, "exec", "shell_exec", etc) though I wasn't successful. The issue seems to be that the user Apache's running under doesn't have access to the DBUS Tracker is running under.

Basically this is the setup I'd like to achieve:
- Create a user "tracker" that is responsible for indexing the content to be served by Apache/PHP
- Grant access to the different folders that I'd like tracker to index around my filesystem
- Make Apache/PHP part of the tracker group
- Have PHP run shell commands in the background to retrieve the list of documents matching a given query
- Finally find a seamless way to provide web access to these documents. Most likely, it would be safer to just add these directories to Apache's config. It would also imply that there would need to be a translation of the paths to the web equivalent (from "/home/some/dir" to "var/www/some/dir" for example)

Does this make sense and is it possible with Tracker??

Disclaimer: I'm a Java programmer on Windows and mostly a PHP hacker. I'm just starting to get familiar with Linux (Ubuntu). Still I think I can achieve something decent and would be happy to share this with others. I'd also be really interested if someone else is working on something similar to either participate or have others participate in this.