Re: boolean search class

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:26, daniel@electroteque.org wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:09, daniel@electroteque.org wrote: > >> > > >> > I have used lucene (Jakarta-Apache) for doing searchs that is > >> > outstanding. > >> > > >> What does it use ? > > > > > > Lucene is actually a Jakarta-Apache (java) project. I have used it to > > implement site searches, search keyword highlighting for various > > document types like html, xml, pdf, and text. > > > > With lucene you create indexes from your documents. Then you have a > > search page that interfaces to your lucene indexing engine. There was > > an article in PHP Arch mag that talked about this. > > > > What if its databased php scripts ? Lucene works with files itself. If your data is in a database then i would use the database to handle it for me...mysql offers full-text search and postgresql offers full-text with some modifications. However, if you dont have a database, i would recommend using lucene. -- Ray