Make ordinary HTML searchable?

I'm looking to make a list of simple HTML data (it's just a list of cities and phone numbers) in one of my custom plugins pages searchable through the default elgg 1.7.1 search box. 

Do i need to add something like "input type=tags" before each city and phone number? Any other ideas out there?

thanks in advance,

Tri

  • I don't know what it means for an HTML page to be searchable by Elgg's search plugin. The data has to be in the database to be searchable.

  • so then i'll need to make a plugin with the capability of adding content rather than just writing HTML?

    so there's no way to enter raw html into the database so it's searchable?

  • The search is over blogs, files, group forum posts, etc. It is not over HTML pages. You could create another type of ElggObject and register that object type with the search plugin. The search plugin has some documentation in a read me file. This will require an understanding of Elgg's data model. The wiki plus the blog tutorial are a good start there.