RE: [PHP] project ideas

i've been trying to build a search engine that runs on php. now searching a database is not the problem, but searching thru a mix of php-scripts and html-files and databases is... i think it would be a real programming challenge to build a php-search engine that will not only search thru the file-system, but is intelligent enough to link to "results-pages" (i.e. the pages that are the result of some php-script acting on a database or other data) as well... i know about php being too slow and heavy on the server for this kind of application, but i'd still like to hear some idea's. furthermore, does anyone know how to extract the exact url that has been used to get to a certain script? (for example: http://www.hoozemans.nl/hoozemans.nl/index.php?submitted=1&kaas=brie) i can get some partial data from the server, like $SERVER_NAME, or $PATH_INFO, but i can't seem to locate the url itself... ok, have fun with this! -----Original Message----- From: php-general-return-23125-nout=geenpunt.nl@lists.php.net [mailto:php-general-return-23125-nout=geenpunt.nl@lists.php.net]On Behalf Of Meir Kriheli - MKsoft Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:20 To: Jerry Lake; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] project ideas Hi Jerry, When I want to learn a new language I always start with an address/phone book application. With this type of app, you'll learn about UI design, database editing, and intraction with the user - which covers most aspects of the new language. Yet, this kind of app is basic, and implementation issues won't obscure the learning process. HTH Meir Kriheli MKsoft computer systems 'There's someone in my head but it's not me" - Pink Floyd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lake" <jerryl@europa.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:45 AM Subject: [PHP] project ideas > Does anyone have any good project ideas for a beginning programmer. I've > gone through many of the PHP tutorials and found them useful, but I think > that if I start tying more things from scratch I'll reinforce things that > I'm beginning to learn. and if anyone has any decent ideas that will help me > master web development oriented programming, I'd appreciate the input. > > Regards, > J. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net