Re: [Tracker] It doesn't index PHP files

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi,

 I think python script contents are indexed because the mimetype is
"text/x-python" and it falls back to the "text/*" extractor. PHP files
have the mimetype "application/x-php" and there is no default option
for that.

 This can be solved adding "application/x-php" in the .rules file of
the text extractor (check
/usr/local/share/tracker/extract-rules/90-text-generic.rule and other
rule files in the same folder).

 Note that generic text indexing means that the python code is treated
as plain text, a bunch of words. You could always write an specialized
extractor that takes into account the semantic of the file. For
example ignoring __init__.py files, or import statemens, maybe
ignoring the code and indexing only function names.... depends on what
you want. Same applies to PHP.

 Writing an extractor module is not difficult with some rudiments of
programming in C and we can help via mailing list or IRC. Patches are
welcome ;)

 Regards,

Ivan



On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> A friend said that Tracker does not index the contents of PHP files... i
> though nah, no way.  It certainly indexes the contents of my Python
> scripts.  But when I went and tried - I can't get a PHP file in the
> result except by filename match.
>
> Why doesn't Tracker index the PHP files?   Am I missing something, a
> setting, or does it just not have an extractor for PHP?
>
> tracker-0.14.2-26.1.x86_64 openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 GNOME 3.6
>
> ### Matches filename?
>
> awilliam linux-nysu:~> tracker-search jsonRPCClient
> Results:
>   file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Development/PHP/jsonRPCClient.php
>   file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Organizations/MI/OGo/CRM%20&%
> 20Hedera/TireSale/tiresale.py
> file:///home/awilliam/Documents/Works/Coils.MD/snurtle-code/build/lib/snurtle/jsonrpc.py
>
> #### does not match word found in the header
>
> awilliam linux-nysu:~> tracker-search Vaccaro
> Results:
>
> #####  does not match method name in the file
>
> awilliam linux-nysu:~> tracker-search setRPCNotification
> Results:
>
>
>
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