Re: [Tracker] Web Interface?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:29 -0400, Bruno Dery wrote:
> 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??

I guess so

> 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. 


Someone mentioned before on this list that they are using SOAP to
connect to tracker via web

also raphael slinckx should me a web interface to tracker he wrote using
python