Is there any way to make use of manticore search so that users browsing my blog can make use of a search box even if they have javascript disabled (noscript)?
I really appreciate any responses I get, most of my searches turn up empty when looking for clues…
Why not? <form> doesn’t require javascript and once the user is taken to the action you can use Manticore there and render the results. If you want it to be embedded into the original site you can use <iframe>. The thing you’ll need to make sure is that the action includes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: <original domain> (or just *) as an HTTP response header. Read about CORS, I’m not an expert in it, but if you control the other domain it shouldn’t be a big deal to implement what you want.
The index is created by piping recursive wget output into manticore’s db via a load.php file.
In my case Zola actually generates an index during site compile, I have not yet investigated if I can adapt this index for use by manticore, if I could then it might save me some work/time.
The 60 lines of code example uses an index.php for the search interface, in my case i would be initiating the search from a regular html page with a search form.