Re: Re: New search related question

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:13 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > If there aren't many files and you don't intend to grow this site much > larger and intend to always have static HTML, any easy implementation > would be to read each file and search for the terms either in the > keywords tag or in the entire file. > > Optionally, if you're on a *nix host you could exec() a grep for the > terms which returns the matching lines in an array and display as needed. Wow, that has got to be the most inefficient lazy method I've ever heard. I would never suggest such a route on a production server. His original plan is much more efficient and is generally along the lines how how search indexing works. As such for a simple site I'd do what he suggest using a FULLTEXT field in the database, or as Greg Donal suggested, use soemthing like htdig. A more involved solution would be something like Lucene. Either way, you don't want to be scanning the files on ever search request. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'