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

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 04/10/12 09:17, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

>   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 ;)

I should add, you can use:

  tracker-control -m $MIME

or

  tracker-control --reindex-mime-type=$MIME

If you change the rules file to note have to reindex all content again.

--
Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.